[Tutor] Debugging skills

[Roel Schroeven]

Mats Wichmann schreef op 5/01/2024 om 14:56:
> while we're nattering on a whole range of sort-of-debugging topics,
> here's something I've occasionally wondered about, when a beginner has
> written something that makes sense only to them, not to the Python
> interpreter.  Regexes are confusing, so there are several websites (see
> for example regex101.com) where you can enter your "code" (regex) and as
> it's interpreted, will show you an explanation in words in a separate
> pane.  Does anyone know if there's a similar thing for Python code?
> "This is what you wrote actually means to the interpreter".  Ones I know
> about (like at Programiz, w3schools, online-python) don't attempt the
> explanation part.  It's not something that's likely to be useful for
> very many cases, but I could see where in the beginning there might be
> some benefit...

Python Tutor goes a bit in that direction, though not nearly as far as 
those regex websites.

https://pythontutor.com/python-compiler.html

I think it's mostly useful to visualize how recursion works.

(As an aside, not that despite the name it can also work for Java, C, 
C++, and JavaScript.)

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