Thank you so much! This is incredibly helpful.

Trust me, I’m far from the delusion that I can write a program that does the things I want it to on the first try haha. By “I think it works” I mean that the code is to the point where at least visually I can’t detect any obvious issues and VSC isn’t throwing up any red flags, either. But when I try to run the program, it throws an error message and a line number, which I have to take back to VSC and edit blindly without any view of the variables and context. Swapping back and forth is becoming a huge headache. A debugger, even one as simple as just installing the ImageJ package into VSC(don’t know how to do this) and telling me when I’m calling a function wrong, would be massively helpful.

Great weekend for Insidious. Low budget horror movies seem one of the few consistent bright spots in the modern box office.