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Practical exercise

Debug your sibling's wrong step recipe

Debugging is reading code that does not work and finding the one wrong line, calmly. You will ask a sibling to write a recipe for something they think they know how to make, deliberately make the recipe yourself following only the page, and then debug it together. The same skill you use here is exactly the skill you use on broken Python.

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Now try it

Debug your sibling's wrong step recipe

Stretch

Swap roles next time. Write your own recipe for a dish you know, give it to a sibling, watch them debug your gaps. The two viewpoints together teach more than either one alone.

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Photographs debug-recipe-NN of the original buggy recipe with circled numbers, the corrected version, and a three sentence note naming the dish, the bug count, and the most common bug type.