Computer bugs indicate a failure to get the outcome you’re looking for, which is incredibly frustrating. Such failures are the result of mistakes that were made while writing the source code – but in the era of “big data”, these are often hard to spot.

So, what can you do about it? Finding and fixing defects is known as “debugging”, and it’s an essential practice. In this short-course, you will learn the preliminaries, essential definitions, different methods and best practices in this field.