This spring when I first started my coding bootcamp, the support staff working with us recommended trying “rubber duck debugging” when we were stuck. Being me, I immediately fell in love with the idea of keeping a rubber duck on my desk.
The general idea is to conversationally talk through the challenges you are facing. Since there isn’t always someone there with the time to sit and listen and who wants to admit all their mistakes to another person, enter the rubber ducky.
As I was preparing for my program to restart this summer, Mike gifted me a brand new friend. Meet Captain Bruce Eugene Quackerton but he most often just answers to Brucy.
Bruce and I have been bonding for the last couple of months over our mutual love of the movie “Jaws”. He wishes he had been born a shark rather than a simple duck, but he rocks his feathers… and fins.
Bruce was raised in a small community on the coast of the Great Lakes. He realized when he was young that if the family’s duck tour business was going to be able to support their large family, they would need to advertise online. So he headed off to the big bad city to get his education.
When Bruce isn’t debugging code, he likes to enjoy a quiet swim, fly to warm places and explore pop culture. Bruce dreams of one day being able to retire to tropical waters.
I look forward to Bruce helping me focus and better verbal my process. Making the career switch, I often find myself disadvantaged by not having the experience with the terminology and slang that those established already have.
Becoming The Demo 