Goodbye Print, Hello Debugger!, talk by Nina Zakharenko

Still debugging your code with print? Learn how to level up your ability to troubleshoot complex code situations by using the power of a fully-featured debugger in this talk aimed at all levels of programming ability.

Debuggers allow you to examine your program state, watch as the values of important variables change, and even modify the content of variables on the fly. Once I gave up using print to debug, my productivity as a programmer increased, and yours can too!

I’ll showcase the variety of debugger tools available - from pdb, the simplest command line debugger that’s part of the standard library, to fancy graphical debuggers available in Python IDEs. Join me as we walk through real code together using debugger tools in a hands-on way to help us diagnose problems and bugs. The skills you’ll learn in this talk will allow you to quickly use these tools in your own code bases for fun, school, or work.

Speaker: Nina Zakharenko
Conference: PyCon 2020

[CritiKaster]

This. Debuggers have made my life so much easier as a web developer. I recently joined a new team with a pretty huge codebase I'd never seen before and was somewhat overwhelmed by - but using a debugger helped me pinpoint an issue that the other devs couldn't figure out - and it took me only a couple of minutes. Immediately established me as a worthy part of the team. Thanks Nina, you have a new fan! So glad I followed your advice :)

[deepakkumar-rixs]

You are doing Very good work. Keek it up

[QuangNguyen-hhrw]

Love your voice and the content. Keep it up!

[edgeeffect]

Doesn't her keyboard sound lovely... so heavy... like it's still the 1970s! 3:40