"Duckling method" for solving complex problems

Programmers (developers?) Like to consider themselves as people of creative professions, although engineers decades earlier and allow yourself this could not. Sovremenennye creative developers have even come up with an interesting and very creative way to solve complex tasks - delegating them mentally assistant, yellow rubber duck bath. So do book advises "Pragmatic Programmer". It seems that the process should try everything.

Let me quote Wikipedia:

The method consists in the fact that the test sets (or is) a toy duckling on the desktop, and when he has a question that is difficult to answer, he asks his toy, as if she really could reply. It is believed that the correct wording of the question contains half the answer.

The method is also used for debugging. If a certain part of the program does not work, the programmer tries to explain the duckling, which makes each line of the program, and in the process finds a syntax mismatch.

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