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Yes, I constantly talk to myself when I'm programming. If you want you could buy a rubber duck and try this debugging technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R
by zitterbewegung 10y ago
Yes, I constantly talk to myself when I'm programming.
If you want you could buy a rubber duck and try this debugging technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging .
- tedmiston 10y ago> Many programmers have had the experience of explaining a programming problem to someone else, possibly even to someone who knows nothing about programming, and then hitting upon the solution in the process of explaining the problem. I've definitely experienced this countless times either in trying to describe the problem to a person or in writing a question for Stack Overflow.
- coralreef 10y agoIt works! You make so many assumptions with your internal thought dialogue, it just becomes clear what you missed when you try to verbalize it.
- mjw1007 10y agoIt can be good for more than debugging, too. If I have a difficult design problem, I imagine talking to someone smarter than I am and explaining why what they're asking me to do is impossible.