@mjd@b0rk The rules I teach my students are "the success or failure of you code is usually entirely due to you" and "the goal is to find the exact line of code that is not working as expected".
My kid was taking a programming class last year and I explained: "The goal here is to point the Finger of Blame: What part of the code is really responsible for the problem? First you accuse the code that actually prints the wrong result. Then that code says “Nuh uh, it was like that when I got it, go blame that other guy that gave it to me.” Eventually you find the smoking gun."
Julia would probably have a less recriminatory way of putting it.
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@swiftone @b0rk I call that "the Finger of Blame".
My kid was taking a programming class last year and I explained: "The goal here is to point the Finger of Blame: What part of the code is really responsible for the problem? First you accuse the code that actually prints the wrong result. Then that code says “Nuh uh, it was like that when I got it, go blame that other guy that gave it to me.” Eventually you find the smoking gun."
Julia would probably have a less recriminatory way of putting it.