[ovt]

I tried to make a database of sorts as a kid.

Reading about relative files and such in the commodore 1541 manual: Went very well. Writing a program out on paper: Went very well. Getting it to work at all on the computer: Total failure.

I just couldn't think clearly enough about how to go about debugging a program.

[amasad]

To VB's credit they did a great job with debugging tools. The stepping debugger was great but to me the "immediate" (which is a repl of sorts) was magical.