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- From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
- Subject: Re: wots going on here!?
- In-Reply-To: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 31 Aug 1992 05:02:56 GMT
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- In article <17s960INN2o6@agate.berkeley.edu> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
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- So, indeed, when I'm teaching C, I tell my *beginning* students nothing
- about gdb; if they can't find their bugs by inspection I tell them to
- put in debugging printf's and recompile. After a month or so of that,
- that's when I teach them about gdb.
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- bleah!!
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- when I teach c to beginning students, i start them out with codecenter
- (was saber c). that way we can talk about each sort of statement, one
- at a time, and they can SEE structures as well as flow of control.
- debugging by printf is the advanced technique... using a debugger is
- what the beginners should learn first. the debugger then becomes a
- tool to learn the language.
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- --
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- REALLY, instead of hyping low impact soles, I think what we need
- are more low impact souls.
- Greg Jahn
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