Short lessons for people learning to code

Study notes are short letters for students and anyone teaching themselves to program. Each one takes a single habit and shows it at work on a small example.

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Four questions to ask before you fix a bug. For example: what did you expect to happen, and what actually happened? A loop that printed only the last price became a one-character fix, total += price, once nobody had to guess.

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