General Debugging Tips

In this section we provide solutions to some general bugs and problems that often occur while new students are programming in Python.

Code language is a very sensitive language that will not work properly if you make simple typing mistakes that are often overseen by the coder.

If you know of any other common errors made by beginner programmers, feel free to send us a message through our emails on the introduction page and we will add it to the book.

• Remember to check that all spelling is correct.
• Remember to check that all letters are in the correct case. (Maybe there is a letter that needs to be in CAPS that you have overseen?
• Make sure that else, elif and if are on the same column line, otherwise you'll get an error.

• Have you remembered to define the variable, function, list, etc.?