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Every successful programmer carries around a bag of tips and techniques.
Today, I'll offer a few on the watchpoint. Sometime between the initialization or critical assignment of that variable and a subsequent use, the value has changed. Another technique is to print out the value of that variable at various points in your program. Many programmers perform a binary search by narrowing the printouts until they find the area where the data changed. Both methods can be useful, but they can also waste a lot of time.