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I feel like the existence of sites like stackoverflow have led to less quality in available documentation. Like the responsibility has been offloaded.
by MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
I feel like the existence of sites like stackoverflow have led to less quality in available documentation. Like the responsibility has been offloaded.
- chrismartin 4y agoPerhaps, but they also deliver thousands of helpful recipes for "using thing X with thing Y" that neither X nor Y's documenters would have anticipated the need for. We are fortunate that Stack Exchange has tried to keep this community relatively open (and not e.g. paywalled).
- voidhorse 4y agoI’m inclined to agree. I also feel SO gives newbies the wrong impression about programming. It’s great to have quick solutions to small problems, but too often newbs stop with the SO answer and move on, which means while they’ve solved their problem in the moment they never spend the time to actually learn the underlying reasons why the solution worked or explore the issue deeper to actually achieve understanding. The good software engineers I know are all yak shavers. They’re willing to spend extra time learning how something really works and ensuring they fully understand an issue and its solution, even if the issue is just a small part of what they need to accomplish.