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🦆 Do you tell your problems to a duck?🦆 I passed Dan Garlick desk and saw a collection of cute rubber ducks - perplexed with no baths onsite why were the duckies needed? Dan enlightened me on Rubber Duck Debugging. The theory is that if you're facing a problem in your code you explain it to a duck, by externalising your code in a simplified step by step 'duck' manner out-loud you can identify assumptions and overlooked details. It'll help you quack the code 🤣 I'm not a coder but I'm certain the idea of talking something through with an inanimate object to catch errors and think critically is universally applicable. I took a pink duck which is living in my handbag! #problemsolving #rubberduckdebugging

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Simon Renshaw

Associate Director - Compliance Biosamples

3mo

Once upon a time at Abcam, we used to tell our IT problems to a Blue Owl….

I love this concept so much Nikki Scarr I feel like this could really take off "quack the code" 🦆😆

also known as #rubberducking :)

Andrew Smith MBA

Director Leadership Development @ Beacon | People Development, Talent Strategy

3mo

talking to a duck sounds quacktastic. it's all about that critical thinking and catching those errors. plus, who wouldn't want a cute pink duck in their handbag?

Jo Ward-Dugmore (Fellow LPI)

Head of Learning & Development

3mo

We give everyone who passes through our internal learning early careers programmes a duck to talk to

Jacqueline Furniss

Senior Director; Product

3mo

Quack the code 🤣

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