Show Description
Cassidy and Marie are here to talk about tips for debugging your code – on CodePen as well as on your own site.
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Time Jumps
- 1:30 Javascript console can help you even if you’re not using JavaScript.
- 3:20 Syntax highlighting
- 6:30 Built in error messaging inside CodePen
- 7:10 Sponsored by Jetpack
- 9:40 Asking for help. Rubber ducking.
- 14:45 Test driven development
- 18:20 Writing debugger into your code
- 21:15 Debugging someone else’s code
- 26:10 Resources
Show Links
- Marie on CodePen / Marie on Twitter
- Cassidy Williams on CodePen / Cassidy Williams on Twitter
- Sarah Drasner: Debugging Tips and Tricks
- ELI5 – when a program or game has a bug, how do developers track it down?- Reddit