Where do you guys ask for help on programming?

I'm just wondering on where do programmers usually go and ask for help :-/ thx a lot.. haha..

Well, I personally always try to figure the problem out myself, go to forum, or GOOGLE is the best solution.

 

ExpertsExchange.com is the site is use when I need help.

 

Anywhere except ProgrammersTalk.

 

BUURRNNN!!!

Usually i look it up myself on the web, or in books. If i really can't find, a forum

 

You don't have a PHP forum. It's the most used prog. lang. on the net and you don't have a dedicated forum for it.

That's too bad.

 

If I'm having difficulty with php, then I'll usually insert a load of debuging code to display variables etc. I'll also probably visit www. php.net and www. sourceforge.net for some inspiration.

Brew

 

www.php.net with the commented documentation is very helpful. Otherwise a good Google search usually turns out the proper answers.

 

It depends on the language. If you want to make ProgrammersTalk.com into a worthwhile site, don't try to be everything to everyone. The best programming forums specialize on one language until they reach a certain size.

 

That's really mean lol... but that's fine -.-" sigh... I'm just trying to open forum for all programmers. And in fact, there are some of them interested in it.

 

ProgrammersTalk.net is NOT the BEST. From programmer perspective, I guess Google is the best source of information overall. But I just want to create a space, where all kind of programmers that specialized from different languages hang out together, share difficult problems, and solve them together.

Well of course, there will be some of people that's thinking this is lame, bla bla bla, **negavite sides**

 

Other programmers in person always works out great it cannot be beat. Of course you need to be in an office to do that sort of thing. As for outside of that I have numerous contacts who are solid resources. I'm not a big fan of using forums and things of that nature since the people posting are doing it to boost their post count and for me when I'm asking for help I need it from someone who's not a post count booster.

 

haha, well of course there's always someone that just post to be a post count booster.. or... I'm not sure with this but, I think who you're talking about are spammers... :-/ and yeah, i don't like them too

 

I first read the Manual and search in it, the comments that guys do there are very helpful. Then i ask a friend of mine who is a better programmer. It helps having friends. And then after I piss him off with questions I go to google and browse the relevant results until I get my problem solved.
Why reinvent the wheel I always say.

 

I look first at the API doc of what I'm using, if applicable! After, I make some google'ing.... if no conclusive answer I ask on Expert Exchange or Devshed. I love DevShed because a lot of weekly tutorials an examples of many availaible and comming technologies.

hope that's help!

 

Helps a lot and very constructive. Thanx a lot

 

For forums for php, http://www.phpfreaks.com is very useful. It has a very active member base.

 

Generally for PHP and CSS questions, I head over to Sitepoint. So far I have a 100% record with them in getting a right answer. Of course, this is after I spend hours working on it myself, researching various sites on syntaxes etc and not getting anywhere.

 

mostly i do coding in java, for java related questions i go for sun's forum

for any other frameworks (like spring , hibernate) i go for their respective forums.

 

I use this one ... http://www.phplabs.com/

 

Actually sun also provides bunch of tutorials about their APIs, which I think is pvery useful for programmers. They also gave many examples in their tutorial pages