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According to MIT's software course, what should you do first when hunting a bug?

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  1. Rewrite the whole program
  2. Find a small, repeatable case that triggers it
  3. Add print lines everywhere at random

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  1. MIT 6.031 Software Construction, Reading 13: Debugging web.mit.edu/6.031/www/sp22/classes/13-debugging Checked 2026-10-10.

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