— Brian Kernighan
“Everyone knows that debugging is
twice as hard as writing a program
in the first place. So if you’re as
clever as you can be when you write
it, how will you ever debug it?”
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context
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“combinatorial
complexity”
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mental model
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approximations
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what’s happening
in our brains?
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the steps the
programmer took
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bloom’s
taxonomy
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higher
order thinking
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bloom’s taxonomy
is how we learn
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we climb bloom’s
taxonomy while
debugging
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when we’re
debugging,
we’re learning
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how do we gather
our knowledge?
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End yes
no
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scientific method
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scientific method
bloom’s taxonomy
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bloom’s
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to be good debuggers,
we need to be good at
gathering knowledge
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scientific method
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to be good debuggers,
we must always check
our assumptions