🦆 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
I love this concept so much Nikki Scarr I feel like this could really take off "quack the code" 🦆😆
also known as #rubberducking :)
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?
We give everyone who passes through our internal learning early careers programmes a duck to talk to
Quack the code 🤣
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