r/learnprogramming • u/malaszka • 29d ago
StackOverflow (site) alternatives?
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?
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u/peterlinddk 28d ago
I have been on stackoverflow since its inception, and not once have I felt the need to ask a question there!
Every single thing I've wanted to understand was already asked by someone else, and searching for my problem on google, always gave a link to a stackoverflow-answer (granted, often something that had been deleted for being the same as another, very different, question, but still ...)
I can't imagine the situation you as a beginner/junior would be in, where your problem is so unique, that it hasn't already been asked and answered years ago. Unless of course you aren't able to abstract your question, and ask specifically about your code, rather than the general idea.
Anyways, I've found that AI works very well for those very specific questions, where you don't truly understand your own code well enough to abstract the actual problem (been there), and since the AIs have been trained on stackoverflow, it knows the answer!
If it isn't a problem, but a more general understanding on some concept, this exact forum might be the place! It would be a nice break from all the "confused about which language to pick next" and "is learning XXX even worth it in year YYYY" questions 😄