How To Debug Java Code The Right Way - Eclipse Debugger Full Tutorial
How To Debug Java Code The Right Way With The Eclipse Debugger
Full tutorial on using the Eclipse Debugger!
Do you still just use print statements everywhere to debug your Java code?
Many beginners don't know there's a MUCH better way to debug their Java programs, and it's built into Eclipse and every other modern IDE.
The Eclipse debug tools make debugging your Java programs incredibly simple and (dare I say it) even fun.
In this beginner's Java tutorial video, we'll do a full walkthrough of using the Eclipse Debugging tools.
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It's a shame that debugging isn't usually explained or taught in most courses even though it's one if not the best tool a developer has. It's a good thing that people like you make videos about this to let learners know about it. I want to share a little tip with everyone: you can use a conditional breakpoint to execute whatever piece of code you like, for example automatically edit a variable's value instead of doing it yourself everytime or log something with a print without even touching the code
@tibettenballs4962
2 жыл бұрын
its a shame. JS HASSSS NO DEBUGGGERRRR
@ylananderson6291
2 жыл бұрын
@@tibettenballs4962 it kinda does, any browser should have the dev tools, you have to find your js file in the sources tab and do the debugging thing there. Otherwise for IDEs you can attach the process which is kinda like the first option but you do all the debugging from the ide window
@tibettenballs4962
2 жыл бұрын
@@ylananderson6291 still sucks, no matter how you package it
@sairos4057
2 жыл бұрын
I hope someday I can do this, right now as a beginner I couldn't... :(
@_Anna_Nass_
2 жыл бұрын
I’m in my second year of computer science classes and they’re just now showing us how to use a debugger. They really should show us this stuff earlier. It would have been sooo helpful.
I am coding in Java for 2 years and I always used print Statements to Debug. You just changed my entire life with that Video.
That’s so funny because I did put print statements throughout my code to figure it out 🤣🤣🤣
@CodingWithJohn
2 жыл бұрын
You're not the only one!
@findlestick
2 жыл бұрын
Same here, and I thought I was being so clever. 😑
@bagzhansadvakassov1093
2 жыл бұрын
We all did
@MrSkinkarde
2 жыл бұрын
The fastest way to debug for me still
@priyanandshukla8388
Жыл бұрын
I do the same even after watching this video 😂
At the moment as far as I looked at KZread, this is the only one Chanel where you can fully understand what he is talking about. Even if you are new to programing. Thank you verry much for the amazing content and your clean way to explain this amazing things to us! 😇😇😇
I honestly learnt a lot from this video John. I’ve spent nearly an hour and a half trying things with you and experimenting. PS I was one of the ones that throw print statements everywhere and it kinda gets messy most of the time hahah so thank you!
Hi John, I've recently start studding coding, computers were my passions since ever, and now I've made the jump and pretend to quit from my job and do this for full time, also recently I've discovered your channel, is a huge pool of knowledge and inspiration for me, some topics are still out of my reach as a new student, but i can appreciate the value of this videos, soon some of them would become gold for me. So congratulations for your efforts, it,s something big, and just want to cheer you up!! i will keep having and eye on your videos even if still cant follow every topic. Thanks!!
Thank you very much. I had been programming for over 7 years without using the debug mode. Even after all tge experience, I always learn something new from your videos.
Hey John, thanks a ton for your videos! I am currently an online student pursuing a bachelors in software development and your videos are better than the etexts they use at school. They really make learning Java much easier! I especially love this one and your videos on sorting, but I haven't made it through this series yet and can't wait too. Thanks again and please keep them coming!
@gladyslemus1798
11 ай бұрын
I agree with you, watching his video made more sense than the live lecture 😅
You genuinely changed my life. I will save so much time, this feature is so rich, and the fact you can manipulate state and re-express and track those expressions... game changer... thank you
Thanks for the tutorial. I knew most of it except for the conditional breakpoint. I used to help myself by creating dummy if-clauses to check for the condition. Very helpful, especially for beginners!
I have more than 6 years of experience in java, but every time I watch your video, I learn new things :)
Hi John, as usual, well-explained and fun to watch. Thanks for taking the time to prepare and present the videos. Could you perhaps do one on streams... ? Thank you
Best Debugging Video available on KZread. I love the way you covered every scenario which can come in real life. Keep bringing the good content. ❤️
Someone give this man a medal. Thank you so much for this.
Thank you John. This is the first video i am watching to learn how to debug java code and i think i dont have any other video. It is that clear.
Its been a week since I have been one of your videos on my lunch break. Learning something new everyday.
Man, i was using prints all this time I learned a lot from this video, thank you very much
Great explanation on how to debug. I've needed this for quite a while. Many thanks.
@douglasheller1863
Жыл бұрын
A good teacher is hard to find. Esp in tech.
I am new to Java, but quite good at a few other programming languages. I've been so lazy to learn the conditional breakpoint that I've modified my source codes instead to create the condition. Now that you showed it in such a quick step, I feel quite dumb :-). Thanks for the helpful video!
How did i not know that this thing exists.... this makes my life sooo much easier, thank you
The fact that I watch your videos just for entertainment and to learn even though I'm not working on a specific task, makes you no less than a great content creator! please keep it up!
Awesome! Really compact video for understanding the basics. I am working with intelliJ and always got confused with tutorials on debug mode. Thanks!
@Dr.Ecksack
2 жыл бұрын
A tutorial like this on refactoring would be nice, too 🙂
A new thing I learned from here is the conditional break point. Awesome video. Thanks to John.
Thank you so much, John! You're incredible! I've never had such experience back in my school and University days. You make learning easy and fun ^^ P.S. We're missing the bloopers in the end, please bring them back! :3
I made an incredibly large text based game a year ago, and I gave up on it because I got an error that I didn't understand. Stack Overflow didn't help me much either. Now I will go back and debug it with the tips you have given me here.
@CodingWithJohn
2 жыл бұрын
If you get an error you can't figure out again, post the code as a comment and see if I or someone here can help out!
One more thing to add is the option to view static variables in the variables tab. By default it's not enabled so you have to enable it. Otherwise you'll wonder where your static variables are!
Thank you so much. I have been working as a Java developer for 8 years but I learnt a lot in this tutorial.
debugging by eye and prints can break a new inexperienced programmer, or at least hinder. this kind of debugging tool is so much help.
One of the most informative, specific and thoughtful video on debugging in Eclipse, thanks a ton John. Keep up the great work.
Literally just opened up a whole new world for me.
For a while i've been guilty of using the sysout method because i found the debug tool a bit confusing, but this has upped my game. thanks!
This man has taught me more java than my school has in 3 semesters
It is the best video on this topic on KZread. Thanks for your efforts!!
@CodingWithJohn
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! It looks like you also used to make tutorials here on KZread (that got TONS of views by the way!) but haven't for a few years. I'm curious, is there a reason you stopped?
@LTEVideoTutorials
Жыл бұрын
@@CodingWithJohn Thanks for reply. Yes, I made videos on 4G. But now changed my domain to full stack developer so learning few basics 😀
Hi John, I am a beginner in java and I want to thank you for those videos, they are so helpful. I did learn a lot so from you. cheers.
@CodingWithJohn
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, I'm glad the videos help! Thanks for watching!
Perfect! Now I can save so much time debugging my programs. Thank you!
Really great job with this video!! I can't explain how life changing some of this information is. I was wondering John, at some point in the future would you be willing to do code reviews occasionally? It could help with content, and personally I find myself at a standstill currently in my coding life. My friends and co-workers say my code is good, but I'd really appreciate an unbiased opinion. But, regardless, amazing job, thank you so much!
@CodingWithJohn
2 жыл бұрын
That's a very interesting idea! I can't guarantee anything, but if you would be willing to potentially have your code shared in a video, you can either leave your code here in the chat or email it to me (john@codingwithjohn.com), and I'll see if a code review for it might make a good format for a video that would be informative to others.
This is remarkably well explained, and truly enjoyable. The best among all technical videos I've watched.
Your explanation is clear and neat ! THANKS 🙏
Wow.... I came here to learn some simple breakdown of debugging. Now, I feel capable of debugging. 😎
John, your videos are probably the most helpful ones I came across. Thank you!
This is also good for looking at Java's built-in classes and methods.
Quite excellent. While watching I had some "Yeah, but" or "but what about?" moments and I can say that by the end of the video you quite literally covered all of them. Many larger places with more legacy code might have painted themselves into a corner with Eclipse dependencies. I am going to very soon find out for my next/current work environment, but I've worked at least two places where you pretty much were forced to use Eclipse for various reasons, grumbling about how your favorite IDE was better and more productive was optional.
@CodingWithJohn
2 жыл бұрын
Yep, the comment I've received the most here was, "Why not IntelliJ?" Although I mainly use IntelliJ, I had assumed most newer learners tended to use Eclipse, but that may not be the case anymore. So I'm planning to do a subscriber poll soon to try and get an idea of the most used IDE, and might end up making a switch for future videos.
@mayankpant1596
2 жыл бұрын
@@CodingWithJohn ..from the first year in university we were told to use intellij because it's more commonly used in the industry nowadays. But here in KZread most of the guys I have seen use eclipse so I don't really know how true is that.. Tbh it really doesn't matter cause they have mostly the same functionality imo..
Nice video, I was already aware about it except the conditional breakpoint, it will be going to help me a lot. Thanks John ☺️
Great tips to code like a pro. Debugging make it way easy. Like everyone said: Thanks a ton
I got so many things thanks to your video, I'm so grateful 🙏
Conditional Breakpoint was new for me .Thanks
This channel is a gold to me, John Rocks!
These tips are very useful!! I didn't know about the conditional breakpoints. Nice video!
Thank god I found this video, this is extremely helpful. Thank you so much John, I love all of your videos :)
Very lovely & useful tutorial ! It covers all the functionalities we need even when debugging very large projects with thousand of dependencies. Thanks a lot !
That was one hell of a video.Awesome man
Very clear to me. Thank you so much 👍. Please keep up your good work.
I never eclipse IDE has these features , thank you for the clear and crisp explanation , can you do a video on how to setup eclipse IDE (best practices), TIA
Thanks, John! You're a fantastic teacher my friend.
Incredible video thanks a lot ! I wish my profs in university were half as clear and helpful as you are ! I learned a lot 🙏🏽
My professor at UAlbany Michael Phipps made this video required viewing. You sir are now homework.
I just want to say thank you because your videos really helped me alot and i always enjoy watching them, and wish you all the best and great success you achieve this year and ahead. ❤️🙏🙏
You have explained in depth and I really enjoyed your video. Very well presented and informative.
You sir have your self a new sub! Thanks for the awesome tutorial. To the point, clear, easy to follow. 10/5 stars
Really helpful explanation for the debugging process. Thanks John!
Thanks a ton John!!. this tutorial is amazing!
John, I think a good future video could be showing us how to use Java Streams!
You are a godsent, perfect timing.
Best explanation ever as usual. Please make a Java Data Structure videos as well. I really need it
Can you pls do videos on Java 1.8 concepts like lambda exp , streams, and also threads. pls John.
I'm waiting for the next video, great job buddy, you explain very well and it's very easy to understand
Hey John ! Thank you very much for making a video on such an underrated topic. Just a request, can you make detailed videos on java file system and multithreading.
thx for high quality video lecture john!
Thanks John, for another amazing video tutorial. Kudos to you for being such a great teacher. You do one of the best java explanations.
The conditional one was very helpful, but I have another question: how do you find the exact iteration where the error occurs (without print statement)? There were multiple cases when I had a problem with the code between 400-600 iterations, but I did not know the exact iteration of the bug. With print, it was easy
Thanks John for sharing this type of information. very usefull.
Pure gold info, thank you John
best video ever on whole internet MAN :)
Thank you so much, such an extremely helpful explanation of the Eclipse debugger!
Thank you for this crash course
Eclipse in light mode, my eyes are burning but your tutorials are too good
@CodingWithJohn
2 жыл бұрын
Most of my videos use a dark theme, but for some videos that are specifically about IDE features I tend to use the default theme so it's more easily followable for beginners. But yeah I should have had my sunglasses on while recording.
John, thanks for this awesome video. The best explanation of debugging. Really helpful 👍
I am waiting for the Streams and lambda course to susbcribe to your private course. Thank you for your effort and for sharing with us, your valuable knowledge. Peace out ✌️👍👍
I come from Vietnam. Your video is very interesting
That's so cool, I'm going to try to implement that in my routine. Thank you, John!
Why not Intellij IDEA?
Hi John , Thanks for such a Tutorial .. It really helps in our day to day coding life .. Looking forward to get session of Time and space complexity .. Please take this up in your upcoming video
Short and sweet. Weldone
Brilliant Tutorial John, by the way I have similar glasses :))
Hey John your videos about Java are the best. I have learned from you in these videos more than my teacher 😂. The only thing i havent yet understood is static vs nonstatic 😅. Can you do a video about it please. Either way thank you for your work.
@CodingWithJohn
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Static vs nonstatic was a big point of confusion when I was learning as well. I do have a video about it in the course, but might eventually have one on KZread as well. We'll see!
Hi John, we are waiting for the video of this week :)
@CodingWithJohn
2 жыл бұрын
I'm working on editing now. If all goes well, it will either be Monday or Tuesday morning.
hey John, let's do lambdas and streams API! in any order you prefer :)
Man, you are incredible 10/10
From the likes count, it looks like people prefer the "print statement" debug style. :D
Every video is just a briliant, Mr John can you shoot video about Java memory management? how objects are created and located in stack(references) and in heap, that will be very useful to fully understand how java works. thanks again for great videos
Thank you great sir, your teaching has been the best for the quickest learning
what about the runtime code edit?
thank you so much! you make learning very easy
Thank you! You are the best! Helped me a lot
Thank you very much John, you're always the solutions to my problems
Thanks alot. Finally i understand it much better
I appreciate the explanation. Thank you very much
Conditional breakpoint is cool
Thank you! I needed this very clear explanations I've read the explanations from the internet, but this is better. Subscribed.
Great tutorial, thanks a lot!