Videos and Reading:

All of the following are required except items labeled Optional are, well, optional (i.e., things that may be interesting but do not directly pertain to your success in this course).

Debugging: Being more adept at debugging (i.e., fixing errors in your programs) will be important for Test 1. The following materials contain examples from topics that we have not yet discussed, but the debugging concepts apply to the work that you have done already. Focus on the debugging concepts and not on the specifics of the examples.

1. Watch this video on Debugging: Good Practices to minimize the need for debugging.
   • For reference, here is a PowerPoint slide version of the Good Practices video. If you want to see these slides, run this PowerPoint as a Slide Show, since it has animations.
2. Download and run as a Slide Show this PowerPoint presentation on Debugging: What to do when you get a run-time exception (error). Be sure to run this PowerPoint as a Slide Show, since it has animations.
3. Download and run as a Slide Show this PowerPoint presentation on Debugging: What to do when a test fails. Be sure to run this PowerPoint as a Slide Show, since it has animations. This PowerPoint presentation uses an example that is well beyond what you have seen so far; no worries, just concentrate on the debugging principles that it demonstrates.

4. During the tests, you are on your own for finding errors in your code. We will not answer questions about your code. However, we have collected some of the common questions that students have previously asked during Test 1.

   Here are those Questions that students frequently ask on Test 1 (AND their answers).