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Important jargon and concepts

Important jargon and concepts - JavaScript Tutorial

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Important jargon and concepts

- [Instructor] When you start using a debugger, there are some important concepts and some important jargon that we need to go over to help you understand things better. The first is breakpoint. Now if you've had some exposure to responsive web design, this term may already have some meaning for you, but in the context of a debugger, a breakpoint is a place where you tell the debugger to stop execution of your code and do something. Usually for our purposes, that's just going to be stopping execution, suspending it so it doesn't go any further so you can look around at what's happening. Once you've stopped, you can start stepping through your code, and there are several ways that you can step. The first is to step over. This means to execute the line that you're on and step to the next one in the file that you're browsing, regardless of how complicated that line you're looking at might be. If it has a ton of function calls all on one single line, you'll just execute it and step to the…

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