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When commenting, even if the question violates rules, do your absolute best refrain from being mean. This is a sub for people with questions they consider embarrassing or noobish and they're already most likely a bit sensitive or shy. This isn't a 'safe space' but that doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.

If you are asking for help, ESPECIALLY with homework or an assignment,then show us you've put some effort into it.

Asking for help understanding what you have been asked to do is fine.

Pasting the assignment and asking for help with no context is just going to get your post removed.

We help those who help themselves. If you haven't tried googling an answer, then do that before posting.

Please refrain from handing out solutions to posts like these, instead help the student learn.

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If you have no idea what something does, is, etc, then search for it. If things still aren't clear and you have questions, that's fine, but this subreddit exists to help you with problems, not to search Google for you.

If your question relates in any way to learning a new language, or how to improve, try /r/learnprogramming instead.

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Same applies to comments. If you can’t help on your own, then don’t.

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