Do you Rubber Plant? Or do you Rubber Duckie?
So, I wrote a question earlier which, having written it, I realised I knew the answer! And someone else helpfully confirmed it for me. This is pretty common in coding... Which led me to think it might be fun to ask something of the community... read on to find out what Rubber Plants and Duckies have to do with it :-) An old friend of mine, when coding, once asked if he could âRubber Plantâ me. I had no idea what he meant! He explained, that it is really common that, when you canât solve a code problem, you go to ask a coder friend, letâs call her Sita. And as you explain the problem to Sita, you realise you have worked out the answer, just like I did above in my discussion forum question! Since, Sita didnât have to say a word, you might as well have gone and explained your problem to a rubber plant in the office, you would still have worked out the answer, and wouldnât have had to distract Sita from her work! Hence, âRubber Plantingâ, when you have to work something out by talking about it to an audience... Now, since then, I find another friendâs office have âCoding Duckiesâ. Little rubber ducks that all the coders get to sit on their monitor and have to talk to first before bugging someone else! So my question to you all out there is: what do you have? Do you have a Rubber Plant or a Rubber Duckie? And if you donât, do you think it might help? Maybe we could have a SoloLearn Rubber Duckie forum? Where we have to post questions first, and if we still canât work it out, then we can send it for asking in the community! Maybe SoloLearn could prompt us occasionally to find out if we solved it ourselves and we can update our answer :-) Anyway! Which side are you on? Talk to the Plant? Or talk to the duck? :-D