Software Design for Engineers and Scientists

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with using the compiler’s help to avoid later problems and debugging

strategy to find the bugs that get written in spite of your best efforts.

Our strategy in reducing debug time by increasing coding time should

be to focus on the sort of errors that are most difficult to track down

and concentrate on avoiding them.

Code a version

Make it compile

Debug it

Figure 6.1 The problem

Code a version

Make it compile

Debug it

Figure 6.2 The target

6.2 Ten programming errors

and how to avoid them