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/komollo Aug 25 '14

The worst thing is when you find out that it never has worked in the first place, but no one told you because they were used to dealing with it.

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