An introduction to debugging C and Java
Learn how to debug broken programs from the terminal and within an IDE
Description
In this course,you will learn:-
- Students will be able to write clean,legible programmes that make debugging considerably easier by the end of this course.
- Students will be able to utilise GDB to detect and correct faults in C programmes at the end of this course.
- Students will be able to utilise Eclipse to detect and fix faults in Java programmes by the end of the course.
Syllabus:-
- Course Breakdown
- Syntax highlighting
- Giving variables clear names
- Don't Repeat Yourself (The DRY Rule)
- Adding a for loop to remove repeated code
- Practice:Adding for loops to improve readability
- Adding a function to remove repeated code
- When and where to add comments to the program
- How to comment in common programming languages
- Making functions as short as possible
- Practice:Splitting a large function into multiple smaller functions
- Formatting code properly
- Putting similar blocks of code together
- Indentation and line length
- The golden rules of writing readable programs
- Compiling C programs
- Opening a terminal
- Installing GDB on Linux
- Installing LLDB On Mac
- Installing GDB on Windows
- Using onlinegdb.com
- The essential GDB commands
- Breakpoints and Watchpoints
- Extra GDB Commands
- Summary of all the GDB commands
- Practice:Using GDB to fix common errors in C
- Program 1
- Program 2
- Program 3
- Using JDB - An alternative to Eclipse
- Installing Eclipse on Mac and Windows
- Installing Eclipse on Linux
- Debugging our first program in Eclipse
- Adding breakpoints in Eclipse
- Adding watchpoints in Eclipse
- Exception Breakpoints
- Watching Expressions
- Display data collections whilst debugging
- A summary of debugging Java programs in Eclipse
- Practice:Using Eclipse to debug some simple Java programs
- Program 1
- Program 2
- Program 3
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