The Art of Debugging

[Ali Samimi]

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Debugging is one of the most important skills in programming--probably more important than writing code :) If your code doesn't WORK, it doesn't matter that you wrote it.  Here are some articles to help you become a better debugger: 

Bug Prevention and Debugging Strategy - A guide to the debugging thought process and making your programs easier to debug

 

Introduction to GDB - GDB is a debugger that comes with any Linux based (including Mac OS X) system

 

Introduction to the Visual Studio Debugger  - If you don't have Visual Studio, you can get a free version of Visual Studio--check out the options here

 

How to Fix Segmentation Faults - Learn to hunt down the dreaded segmentation fault (aka access violation on Windows). You'll find this useful once you've learned about pointers

 

Hunting Memory Leaks with Valgrind - A great Linux-based tool to hunt down memory leaks and other memory problems

 

Happy debugging!

 

Alex