Rubber Duck Development

It s a milestone of the concrete operations stage in piaget s theory of cognitive development when a child learns that other people might have different understandings than they do.

Rubber duck development. Gutenberg for drupal 8. In most cases developers will only explain their code when they re debugging an issue. For anyone reading this you almost certainly have this skill and don t even realize you do. Thanks to open source we are now reusing the same tools on multiple cmss.

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 have learned to be more clear and concise when i am describing a problem. And it s what s making rubber duck debugging effective for you. What my rubber duck has taught me my rubber duck the green ninja image credit.

The rubber duck debugging method is as follows. Use different size ducks with different colored paints to make beautiful unique designs. Pour paint in a shallow container or plate then dip the bottom of the rubber duck into the paint. The brothers later started up the goodyear tyre rubber company that is still famous today but in fact to look at the full history of the rubber duck we must back track around one hundred years to mr goodyear himself charles goodyear was born in the year 1800 in new haven connecticut.

Tara mayberry teaberry creative here are some of the important lessons i have learned from using rubber duck debugging during my website development work. Place rubber duck on desk and inform it you are just going to go over some code with it if that s all right. Stamp away on construction paper. Beg borrow steal buy fabricate or otherwise obtain a rubber duck bathtub variety.