Timeline for Is asking students to debug existing code better than having them write new code?
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| Jun 23, 2017 at 6:39 | comment | added | hiergiltdiestfu | I came to this HNQ to find an answer like that. In the industry, you often have contexts where it is 90% debugging and rewriting existing code, and only 10% writing your own. So from the "real world" perspective, debugging existing code, usually written by others, is much more prevalent than writing from scratch, but being very good at writing from scratch of course provides the knowledge and capability to know how the debugged code should look like, what's wrong with it. | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 20:33 | comment | added | Ben I.♦ | Nice answer. Welcome to CSE! | |
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| Jun 22, 2017 at 19:44 | history | answered | Ross Heitkamp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |