# Rubber Duck Problem Solving

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**Created:** [March 13, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/rubber-duck-problem-solving/67 "2012-03-13T00:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/rubber-duck-problem-solving/67/32 "2012-03-20T00:00:00Z")

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It should be _Teddy Bear_ not Rubber Duck!

See the 1999 book _The Practice of Programming_

[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/debugging.html](http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/debugging.html)

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