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The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse
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The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse

by Norman Matloff, Peter Jay Salzman
September 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
280 pages
6h 31m
English
No Starch Press
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PREFACE

Hey, this thing really works!" So said one of our students, Andrew, after he made serious use of a debugging tool for the first time. He had learned about debugging tools three years earlier in his freshman programming courses, but he had dismissed them as just something to learn for the final exam. Now as a fourth-year student, Andrew's professor urged him to stop using print statements for debugging and make use of formal debugging tools. To his delight and surprise, he found that he could greatly reduce his debugging time by making use of the proper tools.

There are many "Andrews" out there, among students and among working programmers, and we hope this book will trigger an "Andrew-like" epiphany for them. But even more so, ...

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