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{\Huge Final Report}\\
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{\Huge The {\tt C0} Debugger}\\
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Submitted to\\
Mr. Thomas M. Keating\\
Assistant Teaching Professor\\
School of Computer Science\\
Carnegie Mellon University\\
Pittsbugh, PA 15289
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Prepared by:\\
{\bf Aaron Gutierrez}\\
{\bf Shyam Raghavan}\\
Mitchell Plamann\\
Suhaas Reddy
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School of Computer Science\\
Carnegie Mellon University\\
\today
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{\bf Abstract}
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\par
Finding problems in code is a difficult and time consuming task, one especially
difficult for programmers learning a new language. To help students more quickly
find bugs and understand how their programs run, we created an online debugger
for the {\tt C0} programming language. The {\tt C0} debugger enables users to
run programs in their browser and break apart the execution when they don't run
correctly.
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\section{Introduction}
\section{Approach}
\section{Results}
\par
We originally aimed to evaluate our performance against user feedback from both
current and past students. However, due to setbacks in the early stages of
development we were unable to receive significant use feedback from students.
That said, we were able to gather feedback and support from current 15-122
course staff.
In terms of our original vision, the {\tt C0} debugger includes almost every
feature we planned to implement. Users can input code and either run the program
straight through or step through execution instruction by instruction. The only
significant feature that is not currently implemented completely is breakpoints.
Implementing breakpoints turned out to be significantly more difficult than we
anticipated, and given our limited time frame, we were unable to come up with an
adequate solution. We are currently working with Rob Simmons, 15-122 instructor
and maintainer for the {\tt C0} language standard, to extend the language to
support breakpoints more easily going forward.
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\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{new-gantt}
\caption{Revised project Gantt chart}
\label{gantt}
\end{figure}
Relative to our revised Gantt Chart (Figure \ref{gantt}) we hit every milestone
on time. Both the front-end and back-end teams completed their tasks by the end
of April, at which point we transitioned everyone to user testing, revisions,
and polishing. Both teams were able to recover from the lag reported in our
progress report to complete the {\tt C0} debugger.
\section{Discussion}
\section{Sources Cited}
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