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Rubber Duck Debugging

Alright, we’re starting easy and light for this one.

It was popularised by the Pragmatic Programmer written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (an alumnus of Imperial College London). The idea is rather simple: instead of spending hours trying to debug something obscure, explain the code line-by-line to an inanimate object - a rubber duck named Chucky maybe? - to help you work out what the problem is.