Troubleshooting and Debugging Techniques Coursera

Overview

The Troubleshooting and Debugging Techniques course offered by Coursera in partnership with Google examines a range of strategies and approaches for addressing common issues in code and IT infrastructure. The course teaches systematic methods for approaching technical problems and demonstrates how these methods apply to real‑world scenarios.

Examples include general system issues, problems in software written by others, and issues in self‑authored programs. The course also addresses challenges that affect multiple operating systems, as well as platform‑ and scripting‑language‑specific problems.

Prior completion of earlier courses in the program, or existing knowledge of Python and Linux, is strongly recommended in order to fully engage with the troubleshooting examples.

What You Will Learn

• Analyze real-world IT problems and implement the appropriate strategies to solve those problems

• Demonstrate techniques to quickly find and solve the root cause of problems in IT infrastructure

• Understand the root cause for problems related to speed, crashes, or exhausted resources in your computer

• Identify the most common pitfalls of your code and how to fix them