Debugging

Goals

• Internalize the fact that errors are natural
• Understand the importance of debugging
• Learn basics debugging techniques

Content

• Discuss that we all make mistakes and there is no way around it
• Basic debugging principle: comparing what we expect with what we get
• Show how to examine the program state (serial print)
• Demonstrate and discuss the importance of minimal examples

Activities

• Interactive demo and discussion

Task 1

Print some intermediate output to console

Task 2

Find and fix a bug in a given program