Goodbye Print, Hello Debugger!

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Claim: giving up print statements measurably increases debugging productivity. Demonstration uses a simple Flask app calling the GitHub Search API that returns 30 items; command-line tools shown include pdb and IPDB and Python 3.7’s breakpoint(); a live interactive session discovers the repo star key stargazers_count via tab completion. IDE techniques include VS Code visual and conditional breakpoints, jump-to-cursor, debugging Jupyter cells, IPython interact shells, and a pre-commit hook to block stray breakpoints.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:16WHAT YOU'LL LEARN TODAY
3. 2:09CALL API & GET JSON
4. 7:52COMMAND LINE DEBUGGERS
5. 9:08CLI BREAKPOINTS IN PYTHON
6. 9:495 MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDS
7. 14:04GRAPHICAL DEBUGGERS
8. 14:25PYTHON EXTENSION FOR VS CODE
9. 14:54VISUAL BREAKPOINTS
10. 20:52WHEN TO USE WHAT?
11. 22:02TRICK: IPYTHON INTERACTIVE MODE ALIAS IN POBRC
12. 25:57TIP: USE git pre-commit HOOKS

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