Something I noticed in web searching for programming questions is to align your problem to the problems of others. That is, generalize and change your question

Something I noticed in web searching for programming questions is to align your problem to the problems of others. That is, generalize and change your question until it hits a common ground. Or try to search for more "lower level" questions from which answers you can compose the original question's answer. Depending on your problems, the actual programming language might not be relevant. And the "verb" might be ignored by Google. Furthermore, I find StackOverflow a brilliant ressource, especially for beginners.