Interesting that your example question has plenty of answers. Those people apparently did not have a problem with the question. I believe it is hard for experi

Interesting that your example question has plenty of answers. Those people apparently did not have a problem with the question. I believe it is hard for experienced developers to remember how it is to be a complete newbie at something. People just assume is a lack of research. I started learning to code last November. More than once I spent hours (literally hours) googling around why my code wasn't working when it was very stupid, simple details. Lot's of things only present themselves as obvious once you know the answer. Error messages are a knowledge in itself. They are designed for experienced people to understand, not to beginners. Tangentially, for some reason, experienced developers usually recommend MDN as reference when learning how to code. I always find W3Schools more clear and to the point. MDN might be good if you already is a senior developer and is learning a new language. But if you are starting to learn to code at all, W3Schools is a better site for me. Back to Stack Overflown, I don't have any resentment for it at all. I love it! It helped me a lot! Mainly because most questions are already there. But when I have a doubt that isn't, I don't even consider asking it. Hours of google sounds better than being noticed in a hostile environment. That is why I believe SO is great for PHP, Python, Javascript... now. But won't be all that useful for NodeJS or any new languages/frameworks in the near future.