Programmers is more for design questions. There's a detailed list of guidelines on the Help Center. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic http://pr

Programmers is more for design questions. There's a detailed list of guidelines on the Help Center. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic http://programmers.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic There's also a Computer Science site for more theoretical questions (http://cs.stackexchange.com/ http://cs.stackexchange.com/), and Theoretical Computer Science for research-level CS questions (http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/ http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/).