Re: Do we have educational IDEs?

Timon Hinrichs wrote:

Well, no the debugger tells you more than you ask. The debugger of eclipse shows you all local and global variables. The println() - Statement shows you what you asked at all.

But I havent found a debugger at BlueJ and the another starting IDE.

Then you didn't look very hard. BlueJ has a built-in debugger. Simply select Show Debugger in the View menu.

To
debug is very simple in a forward programm. If you use more than one Thread it getting more complex.
A newbie will start to debug when he learned the language and switched the IDE.
That is what my prof said to me when I asked him about debugging. He told me that not so many people debug as many people use println(). println() is the most used debug statement. Is that right? I like to debug more then to use println().

I'd say that often they solve different problems. There are things that really only can be debugged easily with a debugger and some that can only be solved with print statements. And unfortunately there are also problems where neither works.

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 Dale King
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