Comments on Z Trek: The Alan Zeichick Weblog: Interact with your code

Instead of flowcharting I prefer to trace the code...

2009-09-22T02:30:17.122-07:00

Instead of flowcharting I prefer to trace the code. Making it full of console or file prints telling what it is doing in a way understandable by humans, so you can check if the code is doing what you expect. Another option is to use a debugger.

I'm no programmer, so pardon me if this is a dumb ...

2009-09-21T08:43:51.805-07:00

I'm no programmer, so pardon me if this is a dumb suggestion. But what if someone created a code analyzer that automatically flowcharted existing code? Is that possible? Has it already been done? If so, it seems to me that it would be a great debug tool for discovering logic errors in code.

- Paul