Summary
In this short chapter, we saw different techniques and suggestions to debug and troubleshoot our code. Debugging is an activity that is always part of a software developer's work, so it's important to be good at it.
If approached with the correct attitude, it can be fun and rewarding.
We saw techniques to inspect our code base on functions, logging, debuggers, traceback information, profiling, and assertions. We saw simple examples of most of them and we also talked about a set of guidelines that will help when it comes to face the fire.
Just remember to always stay calm and focused, and debugging will be easier already. This too, is a skill that needs to be learned and it's the most important. An agitated and stressed mind cannot work properly, logically and creatively, therefore, if you don't strengthen it, it will be hard for you to put all of your knowledge to good use.
In the next chapter, we will end the book with another small project whose goal is to leave you more thirsty than...
