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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 ...
A rubber duck or a rubber duckie is a toy shaped like a duck, that is usually yellow with a flat base. It may be made of rubber or rubber-like material such as vinyl plastic . [ 1 ] Rubber ducks were invented in the late 1800s when it became possible to more easily shape rubber, [ 2 ] and are believed to improve developmental skills in children ...
After reaching the New Jersey shore, the convoy from "Convoy" finds itself cornered, when the Rubber Duck has an idea: place the friends of Jesus in the front door and cross the Atlantic Ocean the way Jesus walked on water. Though half the convoy is lost at sea (from lack of faith), the rest arrives in England.
Words can capture the movement and thrill of sports — or offer a buzz all their own, writes author Marjorie Maddox. Poetry from Daily Life: Words can lurch, leap, dive and duck like your ...
10 Little Rubber Ducks is a 2005 children's book by Eric Carle. The book, based on a factual incident , follows ten rubber ducks as they are tossed overboard and swept off in ten different directions when a storm strikes a cargo ship.
However, in a 1999 article [full citation needed], Ebbesmeyer credits inspiration for his work to the discovery by Richard Strickland, a colleague at the University of Washington School of Oceanography, of a message in a bottle calling for the release of the Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng. Strickland had opened it in 1991 having found it in ...
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