This is very true. The whiteboard portions of the practical programming classes were among the most boring when I was going through school but actually trying t

This is very true. The whiteboard portions of the practical programming classes were among the most boring when I was going through school but actually trying to solve a problem myself was quite enjoyable and much better for learning. If I remember right we had a brief introduction to debuggers as a concept for better debugging but we were largely left to our own devices to figure out the features because everyone would need different things from it at different times.