Debugging sometimes involves running and rerunning a program, making little tweaks and changes, with no clue as to why it won't do what you want. Try slowing down and interrogating your thought ...

Anyone who slings code for a living knows the feeling all too well: your code is running fine and dandy one minute, and the next minute is throwing exceptions. You’d swear on a stack of O’Reilly books ...

When debugging a program, instead of quietly struggling in front of the screen, there is a technique called ' rubber duck debugging ' in which you explain the code line by line to a rubber duck doll ...

Rubber duck debugging is a problem-solving technique that originated in the world of software development. However, it has applications in any field or pursuits you can think of. Writing in The ...

A yellow rubber duck as a problem solver — a tried and tested trick from the IT scene: In so-called rubber duck debugging, you explain your own problem to a plastic bird step by step and often ...

Self-debugging seems to not only be possible but very effective - and yes this makes me worry all the more for the future of programming. It's not that it's a predetermined bad future. It is more that ...