Programming Assignment 1.7: BugBuster

You can preview the instructions of this assignment on https://mude.citg.tudelft.nl/workbook-2026/assignments/PA1.7/README.html. After the deadline, this link will include solutions. The preview without solutions will remain available here: https://mude.citg.tudelft.nl/workbook-2026/no_solutions/assignments/PA1.7/README.html. All files of an assignment can be downloaded as .zip-file to your computer.

To activate autograding, create a new repository on github from this template repository MUDE-2026/PA1.7_template and push your work to the assignment branch.

In this assignment you’ll make exercises on the following topics:

• Deubgging

  • Setting up VS Code for Python debugging

  • Debugging a py file

  • Debugging a Jupyter Notebook cell

  • Rubber Ducky Debugging

The autograder checks the following aspects of your work for each push to GitHub: Debugged debug_example.py using breakpoints, stepping commands, exception breakpoints, and conditional breakpoints preventing the ZeroDivisionError.

This assignment is due on 10:45, Wednesday, October 14, 2026.

By Tom van Woudenberg, Kwangjin Lee and Jialei Ding, Delft University of Technology. CC BY 4.0, more info on the Credits page of Workbook.