# Tutorial and Skill Map Ideas **URL:** \ **Category:** Arcade\ **Created:** [July 20, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/tutorial-and-skill-map-ideas/38194 "2025-07-20T04:46:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 55
**Author:** ![AlexK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/alexk/32/33339_2.png) [@AlexK](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AlexK)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/tutorial-and-skill-map-ideas/38194/55 "2026-02-01T19:34:49Z")
I’ve been thinking about this one over the weekend, WoofWoof. One problem with putting this into a skillmap or tutorial: You can’t activate the debugger within a tutorial. I do, however, have a set of debugging exercises that I use when I train classroom teachers on MakeCode Arcade. I’ll post those exercises – along with a tutorial on using the built-in debugger – in a separate thread … which I will link here … once I’ve written it. 😃 Here it is! > [@Practice with the Debugger in MakeCode Arcade](https://forum.makecode.com/t/practice-with-the-debugger-in-makecode-arcade/41833): > > WoofWoof gave me a great idea a few months ago, and I’ve been thinking about it over the weekend. He said that we should have a tutorial on using the built-in debugger in MakeCode. So, here it is! This won’t be a tutorial like those that you see on the MakeCode home page, because you cannot activate the debugger from inside of the tutorial tool. Instead, you will follow along with instructions here. You’ll need to open MakeCode in a separate window – preferably on a different screen. After l… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.makecode.com/t/tutorial-and-skill-map-ideas/38194)._