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Debug It!--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code

Raleigh, NC--Three things are certain: Death. Taxes. Debugging. For those first two you're own your
own, but if you're a programmer, we can help you handle the third.

Author Paul Butcher says, "Debugging is one of the few completely unavoidable software development
tasks. It's a certainty that at some point, you're going to have to write code and at some other
point (possibly very soon after the first!) you're going to have to debug it."

Paul's new book, "Debug It!" (Pragmatic Bookshelf, $34.95 USD), will equip you with the tools,
techniques and approaches to ensure that you can tackle any bug with confidence.

These secrets of professional debugging will show you how to handle every stage of the bug
life-cycle, from constructing software that makes debugging easy, through detection, reproduction,
diagnosis and rolling out your eventual fix.

Whether you're writing Java or assembly language, targeting servers or embedded micro-controllers,
using agile or traditional approaches, the same basic bug-fixing principles apply.

With "Debug It!", you will:

- Learn an empirical approach which leverages your software's unique ability to show you what's
really happening
- Discover the importance of finding a reliable and convenient means of reproducing a bug
- Find out how to avoid common pitfalls
- See how to use commonly available tools to automatically detect problems before they're reported
by customers
- Construct "self-debugging" software that automatically provides access to crucial information,
and identifies the broken assumptions that lead to bugs

You can continue to just wing it, or you could start a professional approach to debugging today.
Debug It! will show you how.

For a review copy or more information please email maryr@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery
address and contact information.

Paul Butcher started out writing games for 8-bit home computers before he was a teenager, and since
then has worked in diverse fields at all levels of abstraction, from microcode on bit-slice
processors to high-level declarative programming and all points in between.

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Debug It!
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Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Paul Butcher
ISBN 13: 9781934356289, 232 pages
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