- A method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck. Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving inanimate objects. ← Wikipedia
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