Rubber duck debugging
September 14, 2015
Like a towel is the most important item a Hitchhiker should carry, a rubber duck should be in the backpack of any programmer.
Rubber duck debugging is an informal term used in software engineering for a method of debugging code. 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.
I always forget that this is the best debugging method around.
