I had the same experience at University. We didn't learn how to use a debugger and rather relied on logging data to see the flow of the program. That, plus the

I had the same experience at University. We didn't learn how to use a debugger and rather relied on logging data to see the flow of the program. That, plus the fact that our code was a big mess since we were just starting didn't make it easy to find the more obscure bugs. I was really impressed the first time my friend fired up Netbeans and showed me that how he could find the value of the variables at runtime, at any point in time of the execution. Today I find it unacceptable when I'm in a situation where I can't debug a program I'm working on, it just seems like a waste of time.