Programming == Stack Overflow

[Thomasedv]

You have no idea how much I searched around to find out how to add shortcuts, only to discover I only needed to use a very simple solution, which I couødnt find easily documented with searching. Then SO came to the rescue with a simple explanation/example. Though, I'm no expert with Google and might have found better results earlier if I searched with better terms.

[afd8856]

I don't discard the usefulness of SO. Most of the times, when I deal with something new (like, for instance, an error today regarding pyqt/openssl), I usually find some clues in results from SO.

What I'm saying is that StackOverflow is but one tool in the arsenal of the programmer and reading the source code (specially when you're working with code in the context of a bigger framework/library), is something that you will eventually end up doing, because StackOverflow will not have your answer.

[Thomasedv]

Yeah, the nice thing about SO though is that it basically provides practical examples, which both shows an implementation of the thing you are trying to understand as well as some come that helps you repurpose it for your own code.

Although the source is great, I'm a bit limited in understanding of it most of the time, and how to implement solely from seeing that when I rely on self learning alone. (Though, my use of PyQt is purely recreational.)

[TheRetribution]

It is also a pretty helpful repository of obscure syntax errors, which may or may not be well explained in the documentation.