Rubber Duck Development

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Rubber duck development.

For anyone reading this you almost certainly have this skill and don t even realize you do. Place rubber duck on desk and inform it you are just going to go over some code with it if that s all right. Pour paint in a shallow container or plate then dip the bottom of the rubber duck into the paint. The rubber duck debugging method is as follows.

Use different size ducks with different colored paints to make beautiful unique designs. What my rubber duck has taught me my rubber duck the green ninja image credit. After the paint has dried draw eyes beak and feet with markers. And it s what s making rubber duck debugging effective for you.

Beg borrow steal buy fabricate or otherwise obtain a rubber duck bathtub variety. The primary idea behind rubber duck development is to obtain a rubber duck it can be another in animate object if you d prefer rubber ducks are most common though place it on your desk computer and explain your code to it line by line. Tara mayberry teaberry creative here are some of the important lessons i have learned from using rubber duck debugging during my website development work. Thanks to open source we are now reusing the same tools on multiple cmss.

In most cases developers will only explain their code when they re debugging an issue. The name is a reference to a story in the book the pragmatic programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it line by line to the duck. It s a milestone of the concrete operations stage in piaget s theory of cognitive development when a child learns that other people might have different understandings than they do. The brothers later started up the goodyear tyre rubber company that is still famous today but in fact to look at the full history of the rubber duck we must back track around one hundred years to mr goodyear himself charles goodyear was born in the year 1800 in new haven connecticut.