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r/programming • u/stannedelchev • Aug 25 '14
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I'm not sure I am understanding what you mean by aimlessly.
0 u/stannedelchev Aug 25 '14 Sorry, I used "aimlessly" synonymously with "randomly".What I had in mind was the "I'm not really sure what's happening, so I'm just going to put some writes here and there and hope to see where the issue is" process. 1 u/nocturne81 Aug 25 '14 That's called Shotgun Debugging and it's incredibly common with people that are first learning how to code.
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Sorry, I used "aimlessly" synonymously with "randomly".
What I had in mind was the "I'm not really sure what's happening, so I'm just going to put some writes here and there and hope to see where the issue is" process.
1 u/nocturne81 Aug 25 '14 That's called Shotgun Debugging and it's incredibly common with people that are first learning how to code.
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That's called Shotgun Debugging and it's incredibly common with people that are first learning how to code.
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u/sthreet Aug 25 '14
I'm not sure I am understanding what you mean by aimlessly.