StackOverflow.com - A Site For All Programming Enthusiasts
If you want to start learning programming, Stackoverflow.com is a MUST HAVE for any programmers, all its services are free (So put that credit card away!), Though you would want to learn the basics of the programming (See sites like: This one!, W3Schools, and Google Search) language you choose otherwise the people at Stackoverflow.com might seem to be a little bit... well 'Cranky'. Here are the basics of how to use Stackoverflow.com
First of all sign up
Now complete your profile, this will give you some experience!
Now decide if you want to ask a question now/later or answer one now/later
Now keep this in mind:
If you ask/answer a question MAKE SURE IT IS CLEAR and if possible try and ask the question so that in the future someone has the same problem they can use the same topic eg. Instead of saying "Here is 500 lines of code, can someone fix it?" and the title "Code doesn't work" say this instead:
I have recently been making a batch file with the purpose of making a entire backup of a USB stick, and have a problem with these particular lines of script:
@echo off
title USB Copier
print Do you want to copy the USB now?
This results in the output of
Unable to initialize device PRN
Why does this error appear?
And the title is "Batch-Files - output of the command print is "Unable to initialize device PRN""
Then you should get a answer from someone saying something like:
In CMD/Batch files ECHO is used instead of the C/C++/Javascript command Print so replace print with ECHO
Now you should tick this answer because it is the correct answer, check the answer in your script though before ticking
You might get a few answers that say really the same thing, you should tick the one that has the smallest/best script, but if none of them work dont tick them!
When you accept/tick a answer you get 2 reputation/rep and when you get 50 rep you can attach a bounty to a question that doesn't get a answer/valid answer
But when you attach a bounty you lose the amount of rep you decide to give, eg. If you award 50 rep as a bounty you lose 50 rep! So you should ONLY DO T IF NECESSARY
So thats the basic to Asking A Question On Stackoverflow.com for more on answering them and everything else goto the help page
Links:
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Tour Of The Site
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First of all sign up
Now complete your profile, this will give you some experience!
Now decide if you want to ask a question now/later or answer one now/later
Now keep this in mind:
If you ask/answer a question MAKE SURE IT IS CLEAR and if possible try and ask the question so that in the future someone has the same problem they can use the same topic eg. Instead of saying "Here is 500 lines of code, can someone fix it?" and the title "Code doesn't work" say this instead:
I have recently been making a batch file with the purpose of making a entire backup of a USB stick, and have a problem with these particular lines of script:
@echo off
title USB Copier
print Do you want to copy the USB now?
This results in the output of
Unable to initialize device PRN
Why does this error appear?
And the title is "Batch-Files - output of the command print is "Unable to initialize device PRN""
Then you should get a answer from someone saying something like:
In CMD/Batch files ECHO is used instead of the C/C++/Javascript command Print so replace print with ECHO
Now you should tick this answer because it is the correct answer, check the answer in your script though before ticking
You might get a few answers that say really the same thing, you should tick the one that has the smallest/best script, but if none of them work dont tick them!
When you accept/tick a answer you get 2 reputation/rep and when you get 50 rep you can attach a bounty to a question that doesn't get a answer/valid answer
But when you attach a bounty you lose the amount of rep you decide to give, eg. If you award 50 rep as a bounty you lose 50 rep! So you should ONLY DO T IF NECESSARY
So thats the basic to Asking A Question On Stackoverflow.com for more on answering them and everything else goto the help page
Links:
XLR8's Profile
Tour Of The Site
Help Center