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DrGorgeousFreeman

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#227595638Thursday, November 16, 2017 2:56 AM GMT

What are some useful things that Print() can do. Anything creative? Or useful?

Voxxie

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#227595700Thursday, November 16, 2017 2:58 AM GMT

Most common use of printing is to find where your code is going wrong when it doesn't yield any errors

Chrounum

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#227595701Thursday, November 16, 2017 2:58 AM GMT

eh, I mean, it can check if something works like, you can print("Working") which would tell you that it ran all that code.. but idk #code print("don't forget to dry the towel after use")

DrGorgeousFreeman

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#227595774Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:00 AM GMT

How can you use it to find errors?

Vulkarin

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#227595799Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:01 AM GMT

Well if dog is supposed to be == 1 and you print dog and it prints nil then you messed up >:(

Lostisdead

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#227595854Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:02 AM GMT

You can use it to find errors by printing every time a section of code successfully completes. Such as after a function named "walkFast" is done, you could print("walkFast complete succesfully.") This is useful when you're having issues with something and need to know when it breaks.

128Gigabytes

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#227596877Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:33 AM GMT

its basically used as a way to easily display information about whats going on in your script, you can use it for bug finding by backtracing lets say you expect a variable to be a certain number and your script doesn't work as you planned so you print your variable, and see that that variable isn't the number you expected, you can then try and figure out what could cause it to be the number that it currently is, and when you know why it isn't what you excepted, you can find a way to change it to become what you expected originally.