Ask Smart Programming Questions

Source: My personal notes and reflections from asking questions from Automate the Boring Stuff with Python By Al Sweigart

• Search online, possible sources are: Newest Questions - Stack Overflow, Learn Programming Reddit

Tips for Asking programming questions

• Explain your goal, what you a want to accomplish, not just the steps that led to your question

• Provide details on what you did

  • When did the problem happen like location of program error
  • If the error happened after a change, what was the change
  • If error happens consistently or at certain times

• Provide the full error message. If long, can use sites like Discover gists · GitHub, Pastebin.com - paste tool to put the message as a URL and provide the URL with the question

• Explain troubleshooting you did so far to try to solve the problem

• List your environment like Python version, operating system and other relevant software/hardware

• Respect others as they are volunteering their time to help you