# Chapter 9 - initial code (circle) does not work

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/chapter-9-initial-code-circle-does-not-work/640947
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [October 26, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/chapter-9-initial-code-circle-does-not-work/640947 "2019-10-26T14:26:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Jesse\_Liberty](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/jesse_liberty/32/10304_2.png) [@Jesse\_Liberty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jesse_Liberty)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/chapter-9-initial-code-circle-does-not-work/640947/1 "2019-10-26T14:26:57Z")

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I copied the code from the web version of the book, and it looks right to my eyes, but no circle:

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 From Data to UI #container { padding: 50px; background-color: #fff; } 

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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/chapter-9-initial-code-circle-does-not-work/640947/2 "2019-10-26T14:43:30Z")

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Are you seeing any errors in the console?

Btw, are you the same Jesse Liberty from Silverlight fame?!!

😀

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### Author: ![Jesse\_Liberty](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/jesse_liberty/32/10304_2.png) [@Jesse\_Liberty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jesse_Liberty)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/chapter-9-initial-code-circle-does-not-work/640947/3 "2019-10-26T15:43:25Z")

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Thanks for the quick response. The problem was an errant semicolon. Yup, that’s me.

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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/chapter-9-initial-code-circle-does-not-work/640947/4 "2019-10-26T20:35:38Z")

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That’s awesome. I lament a lot about Flash’s demise. Silverlight’s (and its focus on enterprise scenarios, XAML tools [I think we met a few times around this in person], and a C# programming option) demise is a close second haha.

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### Author: ![Jesse\_Liberty](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/jesse_liberty/32/10304_2.png) [@Jesse\_Liberty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jesse_Liberty)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/chapter-9-initial-code-circle-does-not-work/640947/5 "2019-10-27T12:46:00Z")

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The place where this lives on, to a degree, is in Xamarin programming.

You lament the loss of the C# programming option (as do I). Why then am I learning React which is JavaScript rather than Angular which uses TypeScript – which is much closer to C#?

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### Author: ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/chapter-9-initial-code-circle-does-not-work/640947/6 "2019-10-27T13:57:20Z")

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You can use TypeScript with React too 😉 [It even supports JSX](https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/jsx.html) (used by React) out of the box.