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Lesson 7 of 20 · Fix It!
Fix It! — Part 15
Find what's wrong and fix it. This is part 15 of 20.
What you'll learn
You will run correct code, introduce a small bug on purpose, see the wrong result, and fix it to get the right result again.
Steps
- 1Run the code. Total is 5.
- 2Change y to 5. Run. What is the total?
- 3Cause a bug: change the last line to print(x). Run. Wrong! Fix it.
- 4Reading the code helps find bugs. Step through each line.
Key Terms
- Bug
- A mistake in the code that makes the program do something wrong or unexpected.
- Debug
- To find and fix bugs. You look at the code and the output to figure out what's wrong.
- Fix
- To change the code so it works correctly. Fixing bugs is part of coding.
Python 3
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