Fixing bugs without a debugger is a great skill. If you're good at it, you'll be able to figure out many problems far faster than people who depend on debuggers, and you'll be more likely to get to root causes and change things to be more robust at an architectural level.
Fixing bugs with a debugger is a great skill. If you're good at it, you'll be able to figure out many problems far faster than people who don't use debuggers. You can skip a lot of deep thinking and go straight to the site of a problem. You can explore the actual execution paths in ways you'd never figure out from all the layers of templates and overloads. You can debug other people's code almost as easily as your own. You won't get caught by some subtly wrong assumption you're making when thinking through how things are supposed to work.
Debuggers are dangerous. They're insanely useful, but once you start depending on them, your ability to fix things without a debugger will atrophy. If I had the self-discipline, I'd ban myself from using debuggers for a month out of every year.
Fixing bugs with a debugger is a great skill. If you're good at it, you'll be able to figure out many problems far faster than people who don't use debuggers. You can skip a lot of deep thinking and go straight to the site of a problem. You can explore the actual execution paths in ways you'd never figure out from all the layers of templates and overloads. You can debug other people's code almost as easily as your own. You won't get caught by some subtly wrong assumption you're making when thinking through how things are supposed to work.
Debuggers are dangerous. They're insanely useful, but once you start depending on them, your ability to fix things without a debugger will atrophy. If I had the self-discipline, I'd ban myself from using debuggers for a month out of every year.