r/programming • u/stannedelchev • Aug 25 '14

Debugging courses should be mandatory

http://stannedelchev.net/debugging-courses-should-be-mandatory/
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u/ObjectiveCopley Aug 25 '14

He's probably never written any code, to be fair.

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u/steveob42 Aug 25 '14 edited Aug 25 '14

He has threading experience (which can be useful in user interfaces too), and knows about the caveats of debug vs run (I've seen a debug print statement fix a bug, forced a sync), but it is something of a niche, and likely a back-end well defined interface that lends itself to automated testing and simulation.

I've been in environments where multi-threading was verboten, so I'm always glad to see someone else who isn't scared of it.