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PSA: I was using print() to debug for 6 months before I found the debugger
I started learning Python back in February and I kept using print statements everywhere to figure out what my variables were doing. Last week I finally watched a tutorial that showed me how to set breakpoints in VSCode and step through the code line by line. It felt like I had been reading a map upside down the whole time. Does anyone else have a moment where they realized they were making coding way harder than it needed to be?
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king.lisa2d ago
Using print statements got me through my first few months too, and honestly it still happens when I'm too lazy to set a breakpoint. What finally clicked for me was learning to actually watch variables change in the panel instead of guessing what value they held at each step. Give it a couple weeks and you'll wonder how you ever coded without it.
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