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Debugging with VS Code

Visual Studio Code is an IDE - integrated development environment. A fancy text editor that plugs into a lot of other tools.

It doesn’t debug code. But it does provide an interface for you to connect to debugging tools!

There are extensions for almost every language out there. I was able to set up Python and C++ debugging in a few minutes. It’s as simple as:

  1. Open a .py file
  2. Switch to Run and Debug (left menu, arrow pointing right with a bug icon)
  3. Click Run and Debug
  4. Follow the prompts to install the Python extension

Once set up, you can set breakpoints, inspect the call stack, and more in a consistent interface. You can see how similar debugging Python is to C++.

You can also launch or attach to Chrome to remotely debug JavaScript.

Let me know if you run into any issues with this or have any questions. Happy debugging!

- Karl

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