Problem solving/troubleshooting
Posted by No-Card9992@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Problem solving, troubleshooting for juniors
Hello, I am a junior Devops and I would like to ask you about your approach to debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving. Do you have any interesting books or courses that could help or guide me on different methodologies and improve these skills? Right now, what I do is I write the bug description in the chat and I know what it relates to, then I look at the code to see what’s wrong. I have found this book https://artoftroubleshooting.com/book/ What do you Think
aqua_regis@reddit
Stop using AI and learn to use a debugger.
Learn to google error messages.
Stop taking the lazy road and invest effort to learn to become self sustaining instead of offloading the thinking to AI.
No-Card9992@reddit (OP)
I don’t put my code and error to chat to solve problem for me without thinking. I put only error to explain it to me and i try to solve it by myself
chaotic_thought@reddit
I do not know about the book; but my advice would be to simply practice programming more. You will "naturally" run into all sorts of situations where you need to debug something or troubleshoot something.
If you are living from a book, try solving the exercises in the book. You will need to do debugging to solve the harder problems, or when you make a mistake.
When you install a new IDE, a new compiler, a new tool, etc. often it will not work as expected and you will need to do "troubleshooting" as well.