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A rubber duck race is a type of festival where thousands of rubber ducks race on a river, usually within the city. They are often fundraising events where the ducks are given numbers associated with participants so that ducks that perform well win a prize for the associated participant.
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In software engineering, rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking) is a method of debugging code by articulating a problem in spoken or written natural language. 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 ...
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular is a loose port of Alternative World Games, a 1987 title for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.Kemco had signed a deal with British developer and publisher Gremlin Graphics for the console rights to several of their computer games (such as Monty on the Run), but this was the only title of theirs to be re-released back to the West.
A screen generator, also known as a screen painter, screen mapper, [1] or forms generator is a software package (or component thereof) which enables data entry screens to be generated declaratively, by "painting" them on the screen WYSIWYG-style, or through filling-in forms, rather than requiring writing of code to display them manually.
Dice are an example of a mechanical hardware random number generator. When a cubical die is rolled, a random number from 1 to 6 is obtained. Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator (RNG), a sequence of numbers or symbols is generated that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance.
A flying duck race [1] (Indonesian: Pacu Itiak) is a tradition in Payakumbuh, West Sumatra [2] where ducks fly towards a specified finish line. [2] Young female ducks (4–6 months old) that cannot fully fly are used, and ducks are numbered on their bills. Races cover distances ranging from 600 to 2,000 metres (2,000 to 6,600 ft). [2]
Qwak! is a duck hunting arcade game in which the player uses a rifle-shaped light gun to fire at targets on the screen. One duck at a time flies across the screen, with each duck appearing in a different place on the sides of the screen and flying in different paths. The player is allowed three shots to hit the duck as it flies across the screen.