Asking Code Questions.

Some suggestions to get better answers.

Keno Leon
The Startup
Published in
4 min readJul 16, 2020

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Sometimes ( well many times ) your code is not working and you’d rather it worked, you then decide that asking the Internet or a coworker for some help is the best course of action and well crickets 🦗🦗🦗 you get no love, even worse no answers/angry answers and your code is still not working.

It is not you.

First things first, even if you made the perfect question and you contribute answering questions you are not guaranteed to get an answer back, maybe the person that can answer your question never read it, maybe he/she is tired or busy working on something else and on and on, so keep your expectations low and don’t take the crickets personal.

Maybe It is you.

Unfortunately out of 100 questions one encounters maybe 90 could be improved in some way and this would improve their chances of being answered, what’s more, you can answer most of your own questions if you ask the right way ( more on this later ), unfortunately no one really teaches you how to ask questions, so that’s what we are trying to fix here today.

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