> Going to the reference guides to learn an API is like reading a dictionary to learn English. There's not a lot of context. Exactly! Examples are usually the

> Going to the reference guides to learn an API is like reading a dictionary to learn English. There's not a lot of context. Exactly! Examples are usually the most useful thing in the documentation. Based on my experience, people go first to the examples and then read the description. I guess that's also why stackoverflow is working so well as it is basically a large library of examples.