Also known as shotgun debugging, where you randomly poke at the relevant portion of the source code in the hope that the bug will magically vanish. I think the

Also known as shotgun debugging, where you randomly poke at the relevant portion of the source code in the hope that the bug will magically vanish. I think the habit is formed early on, when most of the mistakes are things like syntax errors or off-by-one problems, where certain types of random tweaking actually can be somewhat effective.