Debugging Strategies

What is a Bug in programming?

• an insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking.

• conceal a miniature microphone in (a room or telephone) in order to monitor or record someone's conversations.

• an error that occurs at some point in the program development process

Name two type of compile time errors.

• Type 1

  Type 2

• Lexical

  Syntax

•  Statistical

  Hypothical

What is a Lexical type error?

• word related error

• speech type error

• creative type error

What are Runtime errors?

• Runtime

  Logic

• Compiling

  Processing

• Running

  Stopping

What is an IDE?

• Internal data environment

• Integrated Development Environement

• Integrated Data Error

What is a good debugging technique?

• Commenting out the code

• Writing the code in different colors

• Deleting the program and starting again

Lexical errors you might encounter

• Not capitalizing the first letter in a keyword

• Misspelling a keyword

• Both answers listed here

Syntax errors are

• Not having the matching pair of quotes around a string

• Missing semicolon

• All the answers are syntax errors

• Not having the matching pair of brackets or parentheses

What is a runtime error?

• An error that occurs while checking for misspelling

• An error that takes place while executing a program

What does a runtime error do to a program?

• It breaks the program

• occurs during compliation