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# Debugging with Print Statements

### Outline

* This is not a recommended method of debugging. No professor will advise you to debug like this. 
* Yet this is a technique you'll end up using often in your CS career
* I would rather you learn it properly (and know when to avoid it!) than to not learn it at all and lack this feature in your set of tools