Debugging

- [Voiceover] One of the big benefits…of using an integrated development environment…is the ability to use the debugging tool.…Once you have your program complied successfully,…you can use the debugger to walk through the code…line by line, evaluating variables…as you go, making changes.…Let's take a look.…We're going to open an existing project…that I have provided in the exercise files folder…called Grades.…There are several ways to use existing code…in your NetBeans application.…In the exercise files folder,…I've only included the Java file…and not the entire project folder.…

So we need to create a new project in NetBeans.…Let's do that first.…File, New Project.…We wanna create a Java project…and we want it to be a Java application…so I'll click next.…And I'm gonna give it a name.…I'm gonna call it Grades.…I'm gonna leave the check mark…so it creates a main class, and click Finish.…NetBeans uses our code template…to provide us with a skeleton…of some of the code necessary to run the program.…Now we can do one of two things.…