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It's one of those things that is acquired with experience and from more and more peers one has had. I think I've learned a bit from all my peers, almost everyone had something interesting or an interesting way to tackle a problem. Once a lot of time is spent in the industry one starts seeing patterns as a new cycle starts.

As far as teaching debugging, it is one thing to show some examples and another one is to run into a bug yourself and get from having no idea how to debug to actually fixing it. That whole experience is hard to replicate in unnatural ways.. When I was in school they told me not to worry too much about debugging and that I'd run into issues in the real world and figure out ways to debug depending on the system and that turned out to be quite correct.