How to find help and make a reproducible example (Debugging)

Click here for a link to a code vignette and a youtube video of a coding demo focused on debugging and reprex
Author

George I. Hagstrom

Published

September 23, 2025

I made a short coding demo (length about 20 minutes) where I slowly go through one example of making a reproducible example of out code with a bug, and debugging the code in the process. I talk a little bit about different places to find help. If you know what a reproducible example is, have used stack overflow, etc, this video may not be useful for you. If those concepts are new to you, then its very important for you to learn about them, unfortunately they are part of the “hidden curriculum” of data science and programming.

You can watch the video on youtube youtube by clicking here.

Helpful resources for this subject include chapter 8 of your textbook, the help page for the reprex library, and the stack overflow website