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Watched a guy debug a loop on paper at the library in Akron and it clicked for me
I had been stuck on the same while loop for 3 days, just staring at it and rerunning it. A retired guy named Harold at the Akron library computer lab saw me sighing and told me to print the code out and trace it with a pen, and the bug jumped out in about 4 minutes. I felt silly but also relieved, because no video had ever explained it that way. Does anyone else still trace code by hand, or is that something people grow out of?
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simonhunt6d ago
Man, I gotta disagree with the idea that it's something you grow out of. I still print stuff out sometimes and I've been doing this for years, it's not a beginner thing at all. There's something about the pen and paper that slows your brain down just enough to actually see what's happening.
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