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Some ways to get better at debugging

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Some ways to get better at debugging

Hello! I've been working on writing a zine about debugging for a while (here's an early draft of the table of contents ). As part of that I thought it might be fun to read some academic papers about debugging, and last week Greg Wilson sent me some papers about academic research into debugging. One of those papers ( Towards a framework for teaching debugging [paywalled] ) had a categorization I really liked of the different kinds of knowledge/skills we need to debug effectively. It comes from another more general paper on troubleshooting: Learning to Troubleshoot: A New Theory-Based Design Arc

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