Re:Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)
by userbinator on Sunday November 07, 2021 @04:25AM
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A debugger makes it far better to understand the execution of code line by line, and should be standard in education, but it's not
In practice, from what I've seen teaching programming (not using Eclipse nor Java), this tends to cause "debugging tunnel-vision" instead, where someone will just keep stepping through code that has a problem, and not even know what happened until the wrong result was seen.
In practice, from what I've seen teaching programming (not using Eclipse nor Java), this tends to cause "debugging tunnel-vision" instead, where someone will just keep stepping through code that has a problem, and not even know what happened until the wrong result was seen.