Things to Do
- Google error messages
- Check Stack Overflow for similar questions. Try to find the most popular posts/questions with a lot of upvotes.
- Specify the language you’re using
- Ask specific questions
Things Not to Do
- Copy and paste lines of code directly into Google
- Use long or complicated code snippets directly without attribution
- Copy and paste lines of code directly into your editor. This is because there are often special characters (like extra whitespace or open- and close- quotes) that will cause errors when you try to run your code, but won’t be visibly different when you look at it
Things to Do
Things Not to Do