PSet2 FAQ

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general debugging hints

  • adding asserts to your code can help you to ensure that values are what you expect them to be at all times
  • write your code modularly: use submethods for any non-trivial repeated or similar code.
  • write unit tests for each of the submethods written
  • separate complicated computations into smaller pieces which can then be asserted on.
  • try to find out where the time is going, are some methods being called more often than you expect them to? do they take longer to execute than expected?
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