Purposefully debugging without using a debugger?

Question

In chapter 5 of \"The Practice of Programming\" Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike write:

As a personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a st

Answer 1

Not using the debugger to F10/F11 through your code can make you a better developer.

During my 1st job I had done a lot of programming in Linux where Visual Studio debugger was not available. Because debugging was hard I've learnt how to analyse my code and really understand how it works. And I became a better developer because of that.

Nowadays I do use the debugger only after I've gone over the code and searched for the "usual suspects" and if I do not understand how my code works without debugging it then I refactor it.