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You really don't have to go back that far. There was no Stack Overflow in my VB and C days (1995/1996). You bought a huge reference book.
by ErikAugust 14y ago
You really don't have to go back that far. There was no Stack Overflow in my VB and C days (1995/1996). You bought a huge reference book.
- bluedino 14y agoThere was IRC, comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc, and AOL/Compuserve had a ton of Windows programming resources as well.
- martinced 14y ago"There was no Stack Overflow..." I'm honestly very glad SO didn't exist when I was learning... SO needs to taken with a gigantic grain of salt: answers aren't interesting. They're "correct" but they're not interesting: the view of SO is myopic and so are most answers. Not to mention that old deprecated answers. now that SO is a few years old, are already totally polluting the DB (Question: "How can I do X?" / Answer: "To do X you should use the lib / API Y and Z and do A, B then C"... Fine. Except that two years later there are much better ways to do that). I started with reference book and magazines and talking with friends who were also programming. Then came my 9600 bauds modem and the BBSes. Then Internet and Usenet. Usenet is the one true medium (and still lives). Sadly devs nowadays aren't skilled enough to use a killfile and need something "simple" like SO. They're getting what they're asking for: a non-interesting Q/A DB containing formatted answer and lots of outdated answers. Now I do use SO, but Usenet-style: I don't Google / search SO. I ask questions like I did on Usenet and use comments as if they were replies on Usenet and I "read between the lines" because I fully know that the answers have to be taken with a gigantic grain of salt.