On 22 Dec 2001 04:27:05PM +0800, Gerald Timothy quimpo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:

> i've had to teach CS graduates how to debug.  some of them actually
> had no concept of breakpoints, or that they could look at variables.
> this might not be so much the fault of the GUIs they've used though 

Actually, the GUI IDEs usually make it ridiculously easy to set
breakpoints and watches. =) Programming projects in school aren't very
large, but a bit of debugging still goes on - coders aren't perfect, 
especially if they're learning! =)

However, we don't really teach good programming and debugging practices
in school. <ruefully> Even the teachers tend to use printfs to 'debug'
their code. I'd like to change that.. should be fun, you think?

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