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Documentation: Basic debugging techniques overview for programming guide

Open pushfoo opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments
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Documentation request:

What documentation needs to be added?

  • [ ] General overview and guidelines for debugging
  • [ ] Crude ways such as f-strings for print statements
  • [ ] Mention that there are more powerful ways to debug than print statements called debuggers. going over common features
  • [ ] Link documentation for debugging for popular platforms such as VSCode and PyCharm / PyCharm CE

Where should it be located?

The programming guide, with links to it from @DragonMoffon 's proposed tutorial series.

Why would it be helpful

It would complement #1298 by helping users work more effectively on their own code.

pushfoo avatar Aug 13 '22 03:08 pushfoo

This should also note things like the following:

  • Using the -I flag to clear previously installed packages
  • Pyglet version issues

These have been problems when debugging in the past, especially when upgrading projects between arcade versions.

pushfoo avatar Feb 17 '23 19:02 pushfoo