All About Debugging: An Introduction

What, why, and how to debug

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In computer science, debugging is the process when the developer or programmer attempts to find a source of error, isolate it, and then fix it or create a way to work around it. The word “debug” first appeared in the 1940s when Grace Hopper was working on the Mark II computer and observed that it wasn’t functioning correctly. The reason was that a moth…