Debugger

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Easy Difficulty Learning Outcome Three Video
Type: Video
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Summary

One of the key features of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that is Visual Studio is the debugging tools. These allow us, among other things, to pause execution of the program, to watch the execution flow unfold and to see what values are in which variables at a time of our choosing.

Task

  1. Watch the video
  2. Load one of your previous programs
  3. Place a breakpoint in the code and then run it
  4. Once the program pauses, step through, see if you can see the values of variables and so on.