Questions

• How can I debug my program?

Objectives

• Debug code containing an error systematically.
• Identify ways of making code less error-prone and more easily tested.
• Understand the concept, and benefits of, rubber duck debugging

Lecture

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Jupyter Notebook File

Please use the Jupyter notebook named "09Debugging.ipynb" for this lesson. If you haven't downloaded them already, you may find them here.

Key Points

• Know what code is supposed to do before trying to debug it.
• Make it fail every time.
• Make it fail fast.
• Change one thing at a time, and for a reason.
• Keep track of what you’ve done.
• Be humble.