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How to ask for help

Completely refactor the question

  • The question must make sense to you before you ask it

Google and stack overflow, a lot!

  • Avoid being seen as a 'help vampire'

Go through entire debugger's question

  • This seems to be a hack reactor idea

Whenever you notice that reality has diverged from you expectation, place a breakpoint right before the symptomatic line of code and ask yourself this question: What piece of code justifies my expectation that this would run the way I expected? @mracus

"I can't" and "I don't get..." are copouts!

No pronouns!

  • Being as precise as possible

Steps:

  1. Your goal
  2. What you have tried to get there
  3. What you think might be going on (this is the least relevant!)

Frequently confirm that the listener understands you!

We are trying to turn you into someone who doesn't need help! See how quickly you can make an instructor go away.

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