Richard Carter » Software Engineering http://blog.rickyc.org Computer Science & Game Development Student at North Carolina State University Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Rubber Duck Debugging http://blog.rickyc.org/2009/03/10/rubber-duck-debugging/ http://blog.rickyc.org/2009/03/10/rubber-duck-debugging/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:45:38 +0000 Richard http://blog.rickyc.org/?p=22 (found here)

1) Beg, borrow, steal, buy, fabricate or otherwise obtain a rubber duck
(bathtub variety)
2) Place rubber duck on desk and inform it you are just going to go over some code with it, if that’s all right.
3) Explain to the duck what you code is supposed to do, and then go into detail and explain things line by line
4) At some point you will tell the duck what you are doing next and then realise that that is not in fact what you are actually doing. The duck will sit there serenely, happy in the knowledge that it has helped you on your way.

I am so going to get a rubber duck now…

-Ricky

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