Unbreaking Software

a short course on debugging

Learner Persona

Learners are comfortable reading and writing classes and unit tests in Python, but have limited understanding of lower-level programming languages like C or Rust, only superficial understanding of JavaScript, and have never dealt with threading, networking, or containers. They use an LLM as a coding assistant but want to be able to understand and check the code it generates.

Chapters

1. Introduction
2. Basic Python
3. Intermediate Python
4. Object-Oriented Python
5. Data, I/O, and Testing
6. Performance and Concurrency
7. JavaScript Fundamentals
8. CSS
9. HTTP and APIs
10. HTMX
11. Alpine.js
12. FastAPI
13. Data Science
14. Data Visualization
15. Polars
16. The Unix Shell
17. SQL
18. Testing
19. Conclusion

Appendices

1. License
2. Code of Conduct
3. Contributing
4. Bibliography
5. Glossary

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