While i was in college one of my main "teaching" moments were with people getting comfortable with the scary idea of using gdb. There was such a lack of unders

While i was in college one of my main "teaching" moments were with people getting comfortable with the scary idea of using gdb. There was such a lack of understanding when it came to debugging that many people graduated still not knowing how to print a register. I worry about them because a lot of man hours were wasted in stupid errors, they would come to me after struggling for several hours. I'd take their applications, compile, run it once, see how it failed; then ran gdb and each and every time it took less then 15 minutes to find the issue. They called me "The Woz 2.0" (my first name is shared with the brilliant man associated with that nick) but it wasn't difficult or some great feat; i literally just used a debugger, like anyone should know how to do. It was a sobering realization for sure. The future of application development lie in the hands of many who are not only scarred of debuggers, but only ever know how to use them in an IDE