In the last post, we learned to use an if test to detect an error that could occur when a user runs our program. A more modern and flexible way of handling errors is to try to execute a statement, and if something goes wrong, jump to a specific set of statements to deal with the error, or at least

Errors are a part of life. Thus, it makes sense to plan for them and minimize their impact. A computer program that has an unwanted behaviour is said to have a “bug”. These types of errors should be fixed before the code is used and shared with others. Other types of errors cannot be avoided, but the clever coder can