Anything better than Stackoverflow?

Question

I am a new programmer who often needs help/guidance on coding. However, I find stack overflow users to be very rude acting on a power trip(as moderators). Is there any other website where coding questions can be helped? Quota users are similar too.

Answer 1

Depends what coding your doing. I've been to stack over flow before and a lot of their code is longer than it needs to be or wrong anyway so don't worry about leaving that site behind. With them you have to sieve a ton of crap to get an ounce of gold. Only a few of them are good coders.



What ever your coding though you can ask on here someone will know the language just don't be too demanding otherwise you'll get ignored. Don't ask someone to create an ecommerce site for example.

Answer 2

Basically here's how you should go about it.



Google Is your Friend -> Looking for Documentation/Other People's Problems -> Searching Stackoverflow directly -> Asking Here -> Asking on SO.



If you weren't able to get it solved after all that then it's probably a question suited for SO

Answer 3

comp.lang.* is a good resource for specific questions, especially the moderated boards. Note, though, that Usenet is traditionally hard on newbies and poor questions for similar reasons to the Stack Exchange sites.



SO gets far more traffic than comp.lang.*, as well.



But about any perceived hostility: it's very likely a side effect of your poor question!



The first thing to keep in mind is that SO is designed as a resource for the community. Your questions are answered not to solve your problem, but to solve everyone's. The presence of overly-specific, overly-general, poorly-researched, repetitive, poorly-written, inaccessible, poorly-formatted, imprecise, or overly-verbose questions doesn't help anyone except the poster, and so they are a waste of time, and are treated as such. This keeps the site _useful_ for the community.



Specific well-researched questions describing the symptoms of problems you are facing and your attempts to resolve them with examples are treated as good questions and will get positive attention and good answers.



If anything's wrong, your question is useless to the community for it and so you'll be corrected. Likewise, please don't confuse criticism with rudeness. Trolls and flamers are just as (if not more) detrimental to the quality of the board as poor questions; they aren't tolerated either.



Here's a nice paper by ESR which explains this quite nicely. Read it:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Basically here's how you should go about it.



Google Is your Friend -> Looking for Documentation/Other People's Problems -> Searching Stackoverflow directly -> Asking Here -> Asking on SO.



If you weren't able to get it solved after all that then it's probably a question suited for SO.

Answer 6

You're welcome to ask your questions here.



Just remember to post your code in pastebin.com since it's so much easier to read.



And I browsed through some of the questions you asked and Eddie is right. If you just ask others to do your homework that's not what anyone wants to help with anywhere. It's just helping you cheat.



In all of your questions all you do is post your homework without actually asking a question. That's true whether it's about programming or chemistry. It's like you just want others to do your homework.

Answer 7

Actually stack overflow is good, it helped me alot. To not get downvoted, you need explain more detail, what exactly of problem you have or what you need. Use pastebin to post code..I had similar problem when i started.. Also search for some forums that related to your programming language..

Answer 8

Yahoo is better generally! But if you want it for programming just stick with stack-overflow. Iv used yahoo mostly for computer programming though so I suggest that!

Answer 9

I have to agree with others about the homework. Your homework is so that you learn something, not so that someone else does it for you. Asking for someone to do you homework for you is not stackoverflow and other coding site are for. They are for people that are stuck, but have tried to figure it out themselves. I have had good response from stackoverflow and no one has ever been rude to my questions.



If you want someone to do your homework for you, and they are dumb enough to do it for you, at least have the honesty and integrity to give them credit for their work. It appears that you are too lazy to do your own homework, but that is your problem. Hopefully when you are old enough to get a job you figure out that others will not do your work for you, it is your responsibility!



Best wishes

Answer 10

I totally agree with you. Stackoverflow is full is complete jerks who understand you're struggling but would rather poke fun at your inferior knowledge of coding than help answer your question.

Answer 11

Hunt around there's lots of forums out there, you'll find a group you can it in with eventually.

Answer 12

You will find this no matter where you go. If you're looking for someone to hold your hand, coders ain't going to do it, and oddly enough, before helping you they expect you to rtfm.

Answer 13

Yahoo! Answers is the right site. However, many people simply say how do I do "whatever"? What they should do is submit their solution, describe what the issue is, then ask for guidance as to how to get round that issue.

Answer 14

Stack Overflow isn't really geared towards beginners.



There's always right here, I guess.

Answer 15

Stack Overflow simply enforces strict rules so their site doesn't become the same cesspool of lazy idiots that yahoo answers is.



You are supposed to ask questions ONLY if you have exhausted EVERY OTHER available resource. To some people, apparently it never occurred f*cking googling their sh*tty question first.



I also find it highly amusing that you ask this question in the programming section of yahoo answers, which IS EXACTLY THE RIGHT PLACE TO post your beginner's questions.



Edit:

Looking at your other questions, you are one of the lazy idiots who simply paste their homework. Are you seriously pissed that you can't do that on SO? It's against the rules even on YA... jesus f*cking christ.

Answer 16

yes

Answer 17

yes

Answer 18

totally agree with you.they are very rude and narcissistic

Answer 19

Stack Overflow is the best, why move?

Answer 20

No, Stackoverflow is the best thing of any sort.

Answer 21

forums.dc4.us (new forum i made be the first to post and get answers fast)

Answer 22

nope

Answer 23

You can try here:

http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/

Answer 24

blackscarf.net

Answer 25

ask.com