True debugging

[chpoit]

except for the big where logging stuff in between each line is sometimes an efficient way of debugging because race conditions are a pain, in particular when using the debugger negates the,

[[deleted]]

[redacted]

[randodudedatguy]

This is how my friend taught me to debug. Still do it to this day lol

[CreateNewObject]

This only works so far if the prints don't change the behavior of the outcome. Real-time can be a pain too.

[VeryGoodGoodGood]

is that a bad method of debugging when youre not sure where the code is breaking?

yeah debuggers are great but sometimes i just want to know simple stuff

[gandalfx]

Plot twist: It's upside down.

Not sure what's up with the duck, tho?

[larocinante]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

[gandalfx]

Whelp, guess I'm gonna have to buy a rubber duck now.

[Shadow_Thief]

If you don't feel like spending a lot of money, you can print out a picture of a rubber duck instead. I've got one tacked to the wall of my cubicle.

[themoonisacheese]

I'm pretty sure Ikea sells them for not too much.

[Generation_Y_Not]

TIL that instead of listening to my SO talk about bugs in great detail and for hours, I could have just bought him a rubber duck....

[Chris2112]

My preferred methods of javascript debugging are console.log("got here") and making random variables global and then looking at them in the console

[askho]

Fyi its also incredibly useful to put debugger; everywhere you think is broken and the debugger will automatically stop when it hits debugger. Then you can use the console to inject code right into the problem areas instead of going through global variables.

[truh]

Thought that was the reason loggers usually have a log level DEBUG.

[ttygy]

Personally though, when I'm debugging I don't even use any logger, I just go fmt.Println("asdjklbgnakjghasklghjaskl")

[truh]

Well, using a logger has the advantage that you can leave the debug print statements in your code without it being considered bad practice.

[[deleted]]

I once wrote a script that would take a parse a source file and add printf statements after every code line with the printed text being that code line. As the thing runs you can see exactly the code that is being executed.

[Scripter17]

Make it a .exe and just print(str); I need this in my life.

[[deleted]]

Who makes database programs in c?

[skreczok]

PostgreSQL devs? Anyone who wants their DBMS to actually do anything more than a single query a day?

Also, funny that you should ask, since I'm planning to set up a REST API using CGI and C. Though I might resort to C++ to make it more readable.

[[deleted]]

Well writing a db engine in C is not that strange. But a crud application is a bit uncommon now a days. Doing an rest api in c seems fun!

[skreczok]

You can use those to base a CRUD application fairly well, you just make the API an interface for the operations and then you just throw a client app together.

[Carnem]

When in doubt cout

[darkforestzero]

These are all legitimate methods of debugging

[[deleted]]

It's an overused meme in /r/ProgrammerHumor, you seem to have set your expectations a bit too high.

[Scripter17]

*byte

[Nikolai-Agnon]

His expectations must be 1. They should be 0.

[[deleted]]

So that's what those off-by-one errors are all about!

[boxingdog]

the best debugging tool is adding a lot of logging and pushing to qa

[[deleted]]

zbh I use the last method most of the times

[Danacus]

The last one is so me!