Should I use a debugger or print statements?
Print statements are okay for quick checks, but learning to use a debugger is a crucial engineering skill that saves massive amounts of time on complex bugs.
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While you can rely entirely on online editors, a local environment is highly recommended for faster testing, offline practice, and learning to use a real debugger.
VS Code with the C/C++ extension is highly popular due to its speed. CLion is a great, fully-featured alternative.
Read inputs from a text file using file I/O operations (like freopen in C++ or standard file reading in Python/Java) instead of reading from the console.
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