Introduction to Java Through Game Development: Learn Java Programming Skills by Working with Video Games

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V. G. BruscaIntroduction to Java Through Game Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8951-8_9

9. Debugging Techniques

Victor G. Brusca¹  

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Edison, NJ, USA

 

No matter how hard you try, chances are your first implementation of a software solution is rarely perfect. Most of the time we need to debug our code to figure out what it’s doing and, more importantly, what it’s doing wrong. In order to be a successful programmer in any language, we need to be able to competently debug a program, so we’ll cover a few basic ideas on the subject.

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One of the most basic and effective debugging techniques requires no special software, IDE, or libraries. ...