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A Tale of Debugging: The Competitive Programmer Approach

Have the computer find the bugs for you...

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Alberto Gonzalez
Jun 16, 2023
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Hello there!

Here’s another story from the original Algorithmically Speaking publication.

This one is very special to me, so I thought it might be worth it for you to read it and get to know me a bit more.

The reason why I like this post so much is that it allowed me to share my very own personal point of view about a topic every programmer faces daily: debugging code.

I was able to share arguments from my unique experiences as a competitive programmer and win a writeathon in February 2023. I hope this serves as an inspiration also for those who want to get into technical writing.

You don’t need to do it perfectly at first, you just need to start!

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