How to use Stack Overflow gracefully?

As the world’s largest technology question and answer website, stackoverflow can be said to be a must-visit website for everyone who has done technology.

As someone who is in and out of technology, I highly recommend learning how to use it, and getting used to using this site.

stackoverflow website address:

Stack Overflow

Let’s talk from my personal experience: how to make better use of stackoverflow.

1. Search in English

This is an English website, and many questions and answers are in English, so first develop a search for your questions in English.

For example, you are encountering such a problem: how to delete elements from a python list?

At this point, you can search for the answer like the following, and then slowly search for the answer that matches your question in the search results.

At this point, it is estimated that someone will ask a new question: what should I do if I don’t speak English?

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know English, you can install a Youdao dictionary on your computer and translate the places you don’t understand. Learning English is not that difficult, you don’t need to spend time to learn it, it will come naturally if you use it more every day.

2. How to pinpoint your problem

You only need the following 3 steps to improve the answer to the search question:

1) Step 1: What programming language are you using

Always enter which programming language you are using first when entering question keywords, so that you can better locate the corresponding programming language problem.

2) Step 2: Locate what you’re having trouble doing.

For example, in the process of using the data analysis tool Anaconda, I encountered the problem that the installation package could not be installed. The English word to describe this thing is: Anaconda install pacakge

3) Step 3: Copy the error message

Be sure to read the error message in the process of writing code or installing software in detail, and be sure to enter the key information of the error message. For example, when I installed pandas with Anaconda, I reported the following error message:

Analyzing this error message, I found that it is the key content of the red box in the above picture, and I can copy this error message.

After completing the above 3 steps, I have the keywords of the above 3 steps, and the final question asked is also a combination of these 3 keywords, simple:

The above example can be said to be a general way to search for any problem.