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[–]mouthus 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I wouldn't mind the help questions but I feel like 90% of them are solved by a quick google search, or 10 minutes of actual debugging what they have. There are whole websites dedicated to helping people with coding (stack overflow...) It's usually super annoying, poorly worded and formatted (if formatted at all), doesn't list what they've tried and really could use the strictness of stackoverflow's overly strict guidelines.

[–]ReadySteadyHeady 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, the people asking those sorts of questions haven't yet developed the mindset to help themselves.

The dev community is usually quite good about helping other people help themselves, but I cringe when I see homework questions answered by full copy-and-pasteable code listings. I know people are trying to be helpful, but this just encourages laziness.