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One of the most frequent categories of bad questions I see on StackOverflow is: I wrote this program for my assignment and it doesn’t work. [20 lines of code]. And… that’s it. If …
المصدر: How to debug small programs
One of the most frequent categories of bad questions I see on StackOverflow is:
I wrote this program for my assignment and it doesn’t work.
[20 lines of code].
And… that’s it.
If you’re reading this, odds are good it’s because I or someone else linked here from your StackOverflow question shortly before it was closed and deleted. (If you’re reading this and you’re not in that position, consider leaving your favourite tips for debugging small programs in the comments.)
StackOverflow is a question-and-answer site for specific questions about actual code; “I wrote some buggy code that I can’t fix” is not a question, it’s a story, and not even an interesting story. “Why does subtracting one from zero produce a number that is larger than zero, causing my comparison against zero on line 12 to incorrectly become true?” is a specific question about…
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