Getting Help with Programming#
Asking Questions#
One of my favorite resources that describes how to ask good questions is this blog post by Julia Evans, a developer who writes comics about the things she learns in the course of her work and publisher of wizard zines.
Describing what you have so far#
Stackoverflow is a common place for programmers to post and answer questions.
As such, they have written a good
guide on creating a minimal, reproducible example.
Creating a minimal reproducible example may even help you debug your own code, but if it does not, it will definitely make it easier for another person to understand what you have, what your goal is, and what’s working.
Understanding Errors#
Error messages from the compiler are not always straight forward.
The TraceBack can be a really long list of errors that seem like they are not even from your code. It will trace back to all of the places that the error occurred. It is often about how you called the functions from a library, but the compiler cannot tell that.
To understand what the traceback is, how to read one, and common examples, see this post on Real Python.
One thing to try, is friendly traceback a python package that is designed to make that error message text more clear and help you figure out what to do next.
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