Ducks to the Rescue: Rubber Duck Debugging
Have you ever been working on a tough puzzle or working through a complex problem and no matter what you do you cannot seem to make progress? Then, on the precipice of giving up, you get up, verbalize it and ‘poof’ a solution is identified! Congrats, you just rubber ducked a solution.
This phenomenon, in the software world, is known as rubber ducking. It’s wonderfully weird, a bit eccentric and powerfully effective; it’s a debugging technique beloved by programmers worldwide. At face value, rubber ducking sounds like something from an ‘Alice in Wonderland’s’ code review session. But...
