Programming
Testing and debugging
Unit tests, test doubles, debuggers and profilers. How to find out why your program is wrong.
About 12 hours of study.
Where to learn it
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (MIT)
Anish Athalye, Jon Gjengset, Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz
Debugging and Profiling
Practise
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- Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python (MIT 6.0001, Fall 2016) (watch)
Lecture 7, Testing, debugging, exceptions and assertions
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Which roles ask for it
- Software engineer (SDE) to get hired
- Backend engineer to get hired
- Frontend engineer in the first year
- Full-stack engineer in the first year
- Android developer in the first year
- QA engineer / SDET to get hired
- Quant developer in the first year
- iOS developer in the first year
- Salesforce administrator / developer good to have
- ServiceNow developer in the first year
- Analytics engineer to get hired
- AI / LLM engineer in the first year
- Embedded engineer in the first year
Before and after
Testing and debugging