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Bug Hunt: Finding and Fixing Code Mistakes
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Spot the Mistake!
Spot the Mistake!
Imagine you are baking a cake. The recipe says: 'Add 2 cups of sugar.' But you read it wrong and add 2 cups of salt. The cake tastes terrible! The recipe was fine — you just followed a wrong step. Computers have the same kind of problem. When someone writes code, they sometimes make a small mistake. The computer follows the wrong instruction and something goes wrong. Can you think of a time when following the wrong instructions caused a problem for you?
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