Yes. Because if you have to use a debugger to understand a piece of code (your own or someone else's), the author has already failed. Good code can be read and understood without any additional tools.
For complex code you cannot understand it in the debugger. You can understand how it works, but you can't get the design of why it works (or should work if it had been implemented to the design)
Yes. Because if you have to use a debugger to understand a piece of code (your own or someone else's), the author has already failed. Good code can be read and understood without any additional tools.