Nathan Mynarcik wrote:

> I think the reason why the teddy bear idea works is because you get up and
walk
> away from the project and think. 

That's part of it. I've used the teddy bear technique a lot, and it forces
me to really think through the process I'm using. I find that if I can't
explain my problem to the bear, I don't understand it myself. Forming a
detailed explanation has given me an "aha!" moment more times than I can
remember.

It often goes something like "I do this, then this, get a return value, send
it to this object, and get a void return... hang on... That's it! I have the
function returning a value, but I declared the function as void. D'oh!"

If you can explain the problem in detail, you can probably fix it.

Cordially,

Kerry Thompson

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