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Discussion on: Getting started with a project written by another developer

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rhymes

I always start from tests and putting breakpoints in random places and see how i can hit them :)

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Jeff Ferber

Nice. It's weird but setting up an IDE's debugger seems to have exceptionally high mental activation energy. Am guilty myself--didn't touch it for years. And when my wife started learning to code, she wasn't shy about telling me where to shove my debugger. :) For non-html projects, I've noticed too that only a small portion of even fairly senior coders set it up.