rubber duck debugging

noun

rubber duck debugging

noun

Etymology From a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer (1999).

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences The practice in which a programmer attempts to solve a bug by explaining their code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck.

Synonyms
rubber ducking

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