Simple Questions Often Aren’t - Posting In IT Forums
I don’t know too many people in IT who don’t frequent message boards and online forums. It’s a great way to increase your skill set and flex your brain muscles. Helping other people with their problems gets you experience, and in IT, experience is everything.
Newbies love to post that they have a “simple” question or an “easy question”. The thing is, they’re NEW. They don’t realize that the question that appears to very simple, isn’t. On the flip side, they may overcomplicate the hell out of what they’re trying to do and post a “hard” problem that isn’t hard at all.
Message boards are great places to get help with programming, but stay away from judging how easy or hard something is. If you want to get help, you need to be as specific as possible about WHAT you’re trying to do, but you also should post WHY.
Why post why?
Because you may be limiting yourself, or overcomplicating the problem. Sometimes we get our minds all boxed into a complex solution (that causes us grief later) and miss the simple fix. Or we get our brains focused on one specific way of doing something just because it’s how we know to do it, when in fact someone else may have found something much easier and more efficient.
Programmers need to be flexible and open-minded to be good at what they do. Start practicing early by omitting judgments on how simple, or difficult, something is.
November 15th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
[...] another Classic ASP code monkey posted to a forum complaining about how he couldn’t do anything in .NET. He proceeded to post code that looked [...]
March 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Приветствую всех!
У меня такой вопрос,кто что интересное подскажет буду признателен.
Мы с друзьями собираемся поехать в круиз по просторам России и ближнего зарубежья месяца на два на своих машинах,но не как не можем согласовать маршрут,если у кого уже был опыт такого путешествия,может,что посоветуете.Девчонок с собой не берем,думаем,что во все городах России с этим не будет проблем,если у кого будут рекомендации и в вопросе отдыха с девушками тоже буду признателен.
С уважением Сеньчик
July 11th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Good day to all
August 4th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Thanks! Really interesting. I wish i could spend my time on writing articles…just have no time for it.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Is this gonna end someday??
September 15th, 2008 at 7:17 am
[...] try to push your question as easy or difficult. After all, if you can’t solve the problem, how can you possibly know if it’s easy or not? If it’s so easy, shouldn’t you be able to do it? If it’s so difficult, less [...]
November 11th, 2008 at 6:44 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JC9wPGvYM8
some of them are not bad but… internet is crazy
December 9th, 2008 at 8:24 am
i new on this forum
December 17th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Hi all!
As newly registered user i only wanted to say hello to everyone else who uses this site