Stack Overflow is one of the most popular websites in the world. It stands above any other programming resource site on the Internet when it comes to quality and quantity of information. In this blog, I will teach you how to use Stack Overflow effectively.
Background
Let’s talk about how Stack Overflow came about.
Stack Overflow was created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008 (both of whom are successful in their own right). The founders planned to create a website where programmers can ask questions, but with a twist – they wanted people to be able to vote on the best answers so that the most useful content could float to the top while less useful stuff sinks. This “voting” idea was inspired by Reddit, which had been launched 2 years prior. The rest is history: Stack Overflow is now one of the most visited websites in the world, and its model of Q&A has been copied by countless other sites.
Getting Started on Stack Overflow
Now that you know what Stack Overflow is about, let’s talk about how you can use it effectively so that you can solve your programming problems quickly and efficiently.
Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It’s built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we’re working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.
We started in 2008 with the goal of creating the best possible resource for finding the answers you need quickly. We are proud to say that we have accomplished our goal: over 8 million users visit Stack Overflow every month.
In addition to being an excellent resource for getting help from other developers, Stack Overflow has become an important source of questions for job interviews. If you have used our site before, you know that most questions on Stack Overflow are answered within minutes. This is due to the fact that there is a large community of developers who frequent the site and like to answer questions when they can. To get started on Stack Overflow, simply go to the website, create an account and start asking!
What is Stack Overflow?
Stack Overflow is an open community for anyone that codes. We help you get answers to your toughest coding questions, share knowledge with your coworkers in private, and find your next dream job.
Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It’s built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we’re working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.
How do I get started?
You can register by clicking on the “join us” button at the top right corner of the page. This will bring up a registration form where you can simply fill out your details and create an account. Once registered you can start asking or answering questions about programming (or any other topic for that matter).
Stack Overflow is a large, community driven Q&A site that aims to help programmers find the answers they need. It’s main focus is on programming, but it is also great for finding solutions to problems in other areas such as Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office and more.
There are a few different ways to search through Stack Overflow’s vast database of questions.
You can either ask your own question or you can search through already asked questions. There are a few options you can use when searching through already asked questions. You can search by tags (e.g: javascript, python) or you can sort by relevancy, votes or date posted. You can also filter the answers that are shown to you. You can show only answered questions, unanswered ones or both.
When searching for an answer it is important to be patient and try multiple different searches until you find what you’re looking for! It’s also important to try searching with different words as well because the same problem may be described differently from person to person.
Stack Overflow is a programming Q&A website. This means that you can ask, answer and vote on questions. You can also mark answers as correct.
Every question is supposed to have one correct answer so that future people with the same problem can find it.
Stack Overflow is not a discussion forum, it’s about getting answers to specific problems. This means that when asking questions, you should be as detailed as possible and only ask about one specific problem at a time.
When answering questions, you should include code samples and/or references to other articles or posts. Do not write an essay or a blog post about your opinion on a subject, but just provide a solution for the specific problem at hand. It’s ok to state your opinion in an answer, e.g. ‘I think this is better than that’, but do not write a wall of text just to state your opinions.
Answers are voted on by the community so that good answers stay on top of the page and bad answers sink down in the list, so don’t hesitate to upvote good answers and downvote bad ones (and vice versa). Upvoting answers helps future users with the same problem find them more easily and gives reputation points to their authors as a reward
Let’s start from the beginning. What is Stack Overflow?
Stack Overflow is a Q&A (Questions and Answers) website for coding questions. It was developed by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood in 2008. The idea behind it was to create a site where programmers could ask and answer coding questions. As stated on their website, the founders wanted to share their knowledge with other developers, but they did not want to be involved in building another wiki or forum.
In the beginning, Stack Overflow only supported C
Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It is a privately held website, the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network, created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. It features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming.
It was created to be more open than previous question and answer sites such as Experts-Exchange. The name for the website was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of Coding Horror, Atwood’s popular programming blog. It features a reputation award system for user contributions. Registration is not required to ask or answer questions or participate in most other site activities; all that is required is a valid email address. Users gain reputation points based on their contributions by asking, answering and editing questions which are up or down voted by other users. Users are notified when their posts are edited by others (either to correct mistakes or improve formatting), but they cannot revise their own posts except within a five-minute window after posting; this prevents abuse of the system, such as reposting or altering one’s answer to match new comments made on another answer after one’s own has been accepted as correct.