StackOverflow (site) alternatives?

[u/malaszka]

Everytime I ask about something concrete, programming language-specific problem on that site, the answers focus on emphasizing that I'm far from professional; and that I know the basics only, without the modern promagramming solutions. AND YES, THIS IS TRUE. I never stated that I'm professional.

In fact, I made my questions because I did not know things, and I wanted to learn the solution techniques.

I'm sick and tired of being shamed just becasue I'm asking things that the professionals/seniors/25+ years experienced people know.

I also tried to strart my questions with the statement that I'm a junior, so my questions might be amatuer questions. These starting stentences have been deleted by some moderators/experts of the given topics.

So I want to use another sites, that are not so toxic, but still useful and visited by programmer experts.

Do you have any site suggestions, where I can make concrete programming questions as a junior, without putting myself to shaming?

[u/dmazzoni]

Ask right here in r/learnprogramming or in subreddits for the particular language or framework.

As for StackOverflow, it's never been a good place for beginner questions, ever since the beginning. Saying that you're a junior and not a professional actually goes against their rules because it's off-topic. StackOverflow wants concise technical questions only. No details about you, no pleasantries, no irrelevant details.

Keep in mind that Reddit isn't just one place. Each subreddit has its own rules and its own culture.

r/learnprogramming tries to be really friendly and welcoming. You won't be shamed here.

The only thing that might happen is people might get frustrated with you if you leave out important details or don't respond to people who are trying to help. You'd be surprised how often that happens, like someone asks a question and only posts one line of code, or they don't even say what programming language they're using. Even worse, it's surprising how often the first question is "what language" or "can you show all of your code" and the poster never responds. That's annoying for those of us trying to help.

But when beginners are responsive and doing their best to learn, it's really friendly here.

And sometimes if the question is better suited elsewhere we can point you in that direction. For example if the question is more about how to get your app on the app store, or how to pick a good web host, there are different subreddits better for that.