VS Code is a popular choice because it’s free, flexible with lots of extensions, and has built-in Git support, making it a ...

UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about coding. How did programmers code the first ever code? What remnants of the early World ...

Overview Among the powerful new features in Python 3.14 is a new interface for attaching a live debugger to a running Python program. You can inspect the state of a Python app, make changes, ...

Bugs show up, eat all your time, and gaslight you into thinking you are the problem. You’re not. You just solved that problem a few commits ago, but now it’s harvest season again. Half the bugs you ...

The left side of the Minecraft F3 debug screen shows you the game's version, coordinates, and biome, among other data. The right side of the F3 debug screen displays info about the Java version, your ...

Sometimes, reading Python code just isn’t enough to see what’s really going on. You can stare at lines for hours and still miss how variables change, or why a bug keeps popping up. That’s where a ...

ChatGPT turned Alex Chen from complete programming novice to functional Python developer in seven focused days. The marketing manager needed to automate data analysis tasks but had zero coding ...

We’ll admit it. We have access to great debugging tools and, yes, sometimes they are invaluable. But most of the time, we’ll just throw a few print statements in whatever program we’re running to ...

A newly uncovered malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) has raised fresh concerns about the security of open source software repositories. The package, named “dbgpkg,” was discovered by ...

Publication Type: Journal: ACM transactions on computing education, 24(4), 1-28.

Debugging and profiling are critical skills in a developer's toolbox, especially when working with low-level system applications. Whether you're tracking down a segmentation fault in a C program or ...

There are few areas where AI has seen more robust deployment than the field of software development. From “vibe” coding to GitHub Copilot to startups building quick-and-dirty applications with support ...