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Fully agreed. Debugging skills are not that hard to teach, while of course practice makes perfect. Debugging is not limited to EE/CS courses of course. The sou
by alain94040 6y ago
Fully agreed. Debugging skills are not that hard to teach, while of course practice makes perfect.
Debugging is not limited to EE/CS courses of course. The sound on the TV doesn't work? But you still get a picture? So the HDMI cable is carrying the video correctly. Sound goes through the same cable, so it's not a cable issue. Do you hear sound if you switch to another input? Then the speaker is working fine. And so on. Divide and conquer.
Debugging (figuring out problems) relies on a handful of basic principles:
- having some understanding of how the system works
- looking for differences. A works, B doesn't. What are the differences between A and B?
- tracing issues through components (the data we care about makes it to the database, but the UI doesn't show it)
That's about it. Definitely teachable.