Igor Kulakov

Revisiting Video Game ‘God Mode’ With Space Invaders and a Debugger | HackerNoon

Back in the day, computer games were different. Not only have graphics and mechanics evolved since, but there’s also one characteristic that doesn’t seem very common in games today: nearly all of them had cheat codes. Cheat codes were sequences of keys that would give you something extraordinary, such as infinite ammo or the ability to walk through walls. The most common and powerful of them was ‘god mode’ – it made you invincible. There’s

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Software

Master Debugging Without Breakpoints

In a typical debugging scenario, you would set breakpoints to tell the debugger when to suspend your program. A breakpoint usually corresponds to the moment that marks the starting point of further investigation. It can happen that in some situations you aren’t sure where to set a breakpoint. Other times, you might prefer to suspend the program at a particular time rather than aiming at a specific line. In this article, we’ll look at IntelliJ

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