How to Use a Debugger - Debugger Tutorial

In this video I will be teaching you how to use a debugger. This debugger tutorial will show you how to debug, answer the question: what is debugging and show you how to use the vscode debugger. We will be debugging python code in VSCode but this tutorial will be teaching general debugging concepts that should apply to all debuggers.
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Projects you can do with golang

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How to use PyCharm in an advanced way

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Or how to code a pygame game for mobile!! Should be complex enough and very cool

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School management system software tutorial_02

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An efficient way to use EMACS as a IDE.

[@dpskane]

there is one part about debugging that you left out, which is sometimes quite important: conditional breakpoints. Because due to an exception you might know the line where the error happens and certain values of variables at that point, but if it's inside a big for loop you might have to click "continue" hundreds of times before you get to the one loop that breaks everything. In your code e.g. there could be an exception when "num = 349". you don't understand, *why*, but you either have to change the code or you need to put a condition on your breakpoint - otherwise you might have to click a bizillion times before num actually turns into 349

[@aanisnoor229]

Thank you!

[@Lazerbeam50]

This is easily one of the most useful programming skills I've ever learned. Thank you so much for explaining everything so clearly!

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I remember watching your coding tutorials and stream and here I am 4 years later, back for some nostalgia.

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right when i was getting stuck with a bunch of bugs... TIM SAVES THE DAY!!! thanks tim keep doing what u do i got my real interest in python bcz of u

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Nothing more annoying than a bad indentation -_-

[@tempor8336]

Steven Cheung or mixing = and == searching for the error during 3 hours and then figuring it out.

[@matchalover08]

Finally I found some reliable debugging tutorial, I barely understood the other videos

[@toreger2852]

Third video was the charm! Still the best ground-up explanation two years later :))

[@TechWithTim]

Glad it was helpful!

[@narfee7529]

I needed this! Thanks Tim 🙏

[@TechWithTim]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tanmaydeshpande]

Same. Never figured out how to use a debugger before this vid.

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@@tanmaydeshpande ikr

[@Bennilenny]

I knew about debugging but NOT ABOUT THE STEP BUTTON !! thanks, Tim.

[@_sammy]

I know most people who will watch this video probably program in either Python or Java, but for any of my C and C++ programmers, I highly suggest learning how to use gdb. It runs in the command line so it’s really light weight. I’m sure there are tons of tutorials online. It’s really powerful and save you from tons of headaches, speaking from personal experience 😅

[@RahulRaj-jc7os]

hey can you please suggest a tutorial for the same?

[@Raghav1205]

Hey Tim could you do some advanced data structures stuff like graphs and graph algorithms and how to implement them

[@databridgeconsultants9163]

Thanks Tim . Your Videos are Superb . Atleast you make videos which are directly implementable in real life projects . Great Job man .

[@hanweiz84]

Thanks Tim. Felt like I somewhat "levelled up" after watching your debugger video. I have been printing debugging statements within my code the entire time!

[@servantofthelord8147]

I always used to ignore this part of the menu until today. 😂😂Thank you

[@juliajulsen5623]

Thanks for the video! I also find myself using the debug console in VS Code often. Extremely useful tool

[@hemanth6951]

One of the best editor

[@MysteriousK69]

Would love to see Android game development

[@Moonlight-jx2sj]

I think you missed the main part: how to set up the .json file for debugger.

[@mariany4691]

It's usually very dependent on the language you're coding in

[@mizel_almizel]

I’m not speaking English but you are the best you never lies u tech me something that I need thank you bro

[@datarobe]

This video is very helpful, I searched a lot but was unable to get step by step procedure to use VS code Debugger for Python ( even the VS Code document does not give this level of clarity ). Thank You. P.S. - I am almost new to Python ( Actually any programming language ). 😊

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Excellent Sir... for the Best Tutorial on Debugging on VS code...

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dude saved my ass at my job, thanks :)

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amazing amazing. You will go places my friend.

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great video. clear, concise and to the point. no extra fluff. earned a sub!

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A moment of silence for those of us who already went through the fun tutorials but broke something and now we've ended up here

[@kunalbhatt4333]

I started learning to code in 2015, better late than never!

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The best thing that you could do

[@debjyotiray8364]

Man, I take you as my role model; you are just too awesome at explanation

[@therealosose]

I just needed this thanks tim!!

[@himbary]

Thanks! No one talked about how it actually works

[@pampagrimaldi8584]

very clearylt explained Tim, thank you very much!

[@peterv3122]

This is a great video. Thanks Tim!

[@JamesTJoseph]

Conditional breakpoint, it is helpful when looping through an iterable.

[@Michael201078]

Very good explanation. Thank you

[@premkatta1128]

Thanks, simple and useful video !

[@Dogberto999]

9:45 - Yeah, denominator goes down (or on the bottom of the fraction). That's how I remembered it.

[@himanshuagrawal2014]

Excellent Video and thoroughly explained, Stay Blessed. Thank you so much.

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FABULOUS EXPLANATION... KEEP IT UP

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Great video Tim!

[@redrum4486]

Awesome! I used to get frustrating runnign the debug and it would just run the app - ALL because i did not include breakpoints before hand xD

[@umerselmani6799]

Idk why, but I guess I need a bit more explanation to wrap this thing around my head, all is good, I suppose I will have to get my hands dirty with this to grasp the idea of the debugger. Thank You.

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Thanks for this wonderful explanation.

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Its really helpful. Thanks a lot. ❤

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Really helpful! Thank you, Tim.

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What theme are you using in VSCode? Looks cool.

[@frankkevy]

I finally understood it

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Awesome Tutorial...

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I learned a lot, as always

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Thank god I see this right now after finishing two homework...

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Sublime theme in vs code is really bothering me.

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Very informative video! Thanks!

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Thanks, Tim! Just in time

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What a fantastic tutorial

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Thank you so much master This was very helpful

[@TechWithTim]

Glad it helped!

[@dasten123]

I wish I had seen a video like this back when I started programming. For many years I didn't use a debugger and that was just dumb

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Same here!

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I would like to see overviews of wide concepts. For example look at a full stack project and give a top down overview of what the technologies are and what they do

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Thank you! Still need to do some tweaks but always working on making it better for you guys

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It is cool to see live comments after reloading the page ;)

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The video i have been waiting for

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thanks your videos are very useful !!!

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This was so useful!

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How about a video on setting up the debugger environment in VSCode?

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Well explained

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software design tutorial # 2? i really liked the first part. thanks

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Please do more of these

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great video keep posting more videos like this😀

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Thank you for this

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DUDE! You have no idea how much of a lifesaver u r!!! And super cute as well!

[@vaeshethblade931]

This is a decent tutorial for editing a known file, but when a program is dumping straight to memory, how can you find where it's going so you can debug it? I can hack the crap out of any file you give me, but I have a game that "hides" its files by placing markers in the save file and taking queues from memory in real time. Debugging is the answer to the problem, but I can't figure out how to locate the memory file I need to hack.

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love the videos tim

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[@MinecraftLetstime]

This will sound weird, but I think using the debugger or at least relying too much on it is not good. If you don’t use the debugger you will force yourself to understand the code better and trace it in your head and figure it out that way, which in the long term will also stop you making more bugs and you will find bugs much faster, because you know the code so well... Just my opinion...

[@bouloukosxontropoulos7436]

Really great video !! By the way what font family are you using ? It's really good...especially how the def sticks out ! Is there a trick to do that?

[@stefaandumez2319]

I have the same. Only thing I did is to use the Monokai color theme. You can check out if it works for you.

[@gidartsproduction5439]

Please Tim, are you going to continue with the software you just mentioned previously about school management system or you were just giving us a quick foundation?

[@TechWithTim]

I do plan on continuing it, just takes a while to film and code it all out

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This is my seal. I have watched the entire video, understood it, and I can explain it in my own words, thus I have gained knowledge. This is my seal.

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Thank you!

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extremely helpful!!!!! thanks!!!

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thanks i needed this

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Great video!

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Thanks!

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info starts at 4:40

[@dinakhan4961]

i understand but, which extension I should download for debugging in vs code(python code)

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I love your videos Tim😍😍

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What is the color theme he is using?

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Is the code that you show/use here on Github?

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Really helpful!!

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Really helpful

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Thank you 🎉

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Where we can see the output and where we can input something?

[@Lulit999]

I really like "run to cursor" option in PyCharm instead of putting a lot of breakpoints.

[@aanisnoor229]

Thank you!

[@jailnet]

Man, i'm trying to fit learning python into my schedule, but im finding it difficult to find a balance between study and python 🤷🙍

[@siyam.88]

I would say that if you don't get enough time to code that's not a big problem, be consistent to it, code everyday even for 20 minutes, learn a new topic each day.

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i would advice you to watch plenty of videos for python on youtube or any learning source you can find, rest would be easy. you can make your task easier by listing what skills you want to learn in python and move step by step

[@adityachoudhary1637]

each day watch 2 videos for topic you decided for yourself not more than that your interest will carry you rest of the way😀

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Just study python then..... 😁

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My advice would be, if you can do 30 mins a day as a starter, it would be really good/enough imo. Though the best what you can do is actually getting yourself into coding. I use the phrase "getting your hands dirty with programming" meaning, when you start to write code, you really will get the idea and the meaning of each line of code you write. And also take notes, sometimes write the pieces of code in a paper too, in my nation they say, writing is equal to 10 readings, so your memory will be better in remembering things you write down. Attention: ONLY watching KZbin videos or reading books without applying the knowledge, will be no much of benefit, and the best way is, doing them (watching and writing) as simultaneously as possible.

[@sagarganiga3417]

when i click on debugging only 2 options are available that is pause and restart. rest are not accesible

[@lohwaiseng]

MaY i know what happens if i enter a debugging mode of a unknown board assuming that I know wat the processor is, and I used the relevant tool to get into its debugging, what would I see in the IDE (programming interface software) ? Am I able to connect to the boards RAM & EPROM chip?

[@gmc9753]

I thought a watchpoint is when the debugger stops when a variable changes or when it hits a certain value, or is watch and watchpoint different in VS code.

[@SAsquirtle]

holy shit this is an invaluable video

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How to use debugger when working with multiple applications in project in VS code....Plz elp

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How do you know if your phone is being tracked Tim?

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Super guide