1. Introduction to Debugging Techniques in Visual C++ 6.0
Speaker: Yao-Ting Huang
Advisor: Kun-Mao Chao
National Taiwan University
Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering
Algorithms and Computational Biology Lab.
2019/2/22

2. How to Reduce Bugs in Your Program
Never write a program at midnight
Thinking more before writing your program
Design your algorithm to solve the problem
Think of the programming flow
Your program is better to be modular and well-organized.
Choosing a suitable IDE for you to write a program
Tracing programs written by experienced programmers

3. What If You Encounter a Bug
The time of debugging depends on
the structure of your program,
the IDE you choose,
and the programming experience.
Step-by-step tracing the execution of the program.
Only suitable for small-scaled programs.
Toggling breaking points in possible erroneous lines of code
Most commonly used approach to debug all kinds of programs.
Reducing the code size by marking part of the code as comments.

4. About Homework #1
The grading depends on how many efforts you spend on it
You can simply revise the given miles-to-kilometers conversion program.
You can use the UI components in VC6.0 to build a typical Win32 application (e.g., drawing a thermometer).
You can create additional functionalities (e.g., from degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit).
The demo of your Homework #1 is at next Thursday here.
Please bring your source code and execution file.

5. Outlines of the Lecture Today
Create, compile, and execute a program in Visual C++ 6.0
Debugging a program in Visual C++ 6.0