I really wish there was more emphasis on using a debugger in my college classes....Because it''s so funny when people freak out when they get like 100 errors...mainly because they forgot a bracket or semi-colon.
Also, it seems to me that people would learn to appericate what a good debugger does for you...In my classes EVERYBODY keeps "guessing" what is wrong with something and then tweaking some value or line of code, when that''s not the problem...But if they ran the debugger and actually SAW what the code was doing each step, they would quickly find there mistakes. Debuggers have saved hours of my time, USE IT!!!!
This was all said in a good tone. Here''s a tip I picked up once: "When listening to some one tell about their problem (whether it''s code or not), don''t listen to what went right or wrong, but what they assumed....."
can someone debug this for me?
quote:Original post by Pactuul
I really wish there was more emphasis on using a debugger in my college classes....Because it''s so funny when people freak out when they get like 100 errors...mainly because they forgot a bracket or semi-colon.
How would a debugger help in that case?
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Got me there...forgot to make the connection: Basically when you learn to use a debugger most of the errors you get become trivial and easier to solve... I dislike it when people complain that there''s "so many errors" when if you just used a bracket or semi-colon, it would more than likely fix half of them.
It seems people get a mental block when they are confronted with this...But I believe that when you start using a debugger, you become more comfortable with the syntax and language and you start to recognize errors and their causes...
At this point, I''ve debugged so many errors and seen what causes them, that I can almost immedaitely point out the cause for people''s woes in C++
It seems people get a mental block when they are confronted with this...But I believe that when you start using a debugger, you become more comfortable with the syntax and language and you start to recognize errors and their causes...
At this point, I''ve debugged so many errors and seen what causes them, that I can almost immedaitely point out the cause for people''s woes in C++
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