All software of sufficient complexity to do something useful (and even some that don’t do anything interesting at all) will contain bugs. This is a fact of life.

It’s the job of the programmer to find and remove these bugs. There are many ways of going about this but the most interesting, I think, is using a tool called a debugger.

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If you were paying attention to the field of pseudoscience a couple of weeks ago you’ll remember the story of the maths teacher who revolutionised division by zero and without a by-your-leave was teaching it to secondary school pupils. Not only was he subverting the standard procedure of childhood education (by teaching his pet fantasies as the ( Read more... )