Back in august, I introduced the error tracking challenge. While it didn’t get as much participation as I had hoped for, I did manage to collect some results. In this post, I’ll go through the most common ones, and suggest some approaches to avoiding them. Suggest your own errors and tips in the comments!
Error tracking challenge is over
Just as a reminder: If you participated in the error tracking challenge and haven’t yet mailed your results to me, please do so ASAP. The address is jani at codeutopia net I will be posting some results next week.
Reader challenge: Keep track of code errors
The book Code Complete suggests to keep track of common mistakes. This is so that you can see what mistakes you make most often, and so that you can have a checklist of things that you should check when debugging. I want to challenge you, dear reader, to keep track of your mistakes with me for the coming three weeks. …