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Troubleshooting Java, Second Edition
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Troubleshooting Java, Second Edition

by Laurentiu Spilca
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 23m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Troubleshooting Java, Second Edition

2 Understanding your app’s logic through debugging techniques

This chapter covers

  • When to use a debugger and when to avoid it
  • Using a debugger to investigate code
  • Enhancing your debugging techniques with AI assistants

Not long ago, during one of my piano lessons, I shared the sheet music of a song I wanted to learn with my piano teacher. I was so impressed when he just played the song while reading the music sheet for the first time. “How cool is that?” I thought. “How does someone gain this skill?”

Then, I remembered that some years ago, I was in a peer-programming session with one of the newly hired juniors in the company I was working for. It was my turn at the keyboard, and we were investigating a relatively large and complex piece ...

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