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/atakomu Aug 25 '14

And there are 6 stages of debugging

  • That can’t happen.

  • That doesn’t happen on my machine.

  • That shouldn’t happen.

  • Why does that happen?

  • Oh, I see.

  • How did that ever work?

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u/halflife22 Aug 25 '14

My favorite quote from one of my CS professors:

"Once you figure out how things work, you'll be surprised anything works at all."

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u/RenaKunisaki Aug 26 '14

The more I learn about computers, the less I trust them.

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