(jeffa) Re: Re: Are debuggers good?

[jeffa]

Oh how I concur - actually, I was quite shocked to hear this coming from you, merlyn - no particular reason.

When I was studying CS in college, I was a lab assistant. I learned very quickly to code in small chunks - and save often - revision control was also a big plus.

I learned this, but most of the first and second year CS majors refused to work in this manner. It was a shame to watch them type about 100 lines of code, try to compile it, and then ask me to help figure out what these 200 lines of errors meant.

<CONTROVERSY>
To tell the truth, the only debugger I found helpfull is the one that is available for Visual Basic.
</CONTROVERSY>

Jeff

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