It's a valuable tool that you want to have as a programmer.

对于作为一名程序员的你来讲,这是很有价值的一个工具。

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I guess it's not macho enough, John, to just, you know, you know, go off and do things by hand, you ought to just run them, but it's a valuable tool to get into, so let me do that here.

我认为这不太男人了，John，你知道的，他们仅仅是认为比起用手做来,更应该直接去运行程序，但是这确实是调试代码的非常有价值的工具，让我在这里给大家演示下吧。

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OK, so how can I code this up? Well, you might think, let's just jump in and write some code, I don't want to quite do that though, because I want to show you another tool that's valuable for thinking about how to structure the code, and that is a something called a flow chart. Now.

好，那么我怎么把这个以代码实现呢，你可能会想，让我们进去直接写代码把,但是我不想这么做，因为我想教给大家另外一项很有价值的,用来组织代码的工具，叫做流程图,现在，像Guttag教授,和我这么大岁数的人。

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