Debugging

Being able to debug your code is a key skill that any software developer must be able to do. As our systems grow ever more complex, the potential for bugs within our code grows exponentially, and knowing the best practices for debugging in certain scenarios could save you a substantial amount of time.

The techniques I'll be showing you next will work for both single-threaded and multithreaded applications. For brevity, I'll only be demonstrating these techniques on simple, single-threaded applications, but I implore you to try and become as familiar with these tools as possible, and practice using them in multithreaded scenarios.

Make it work as a single thread

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