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What is Stack Overflow good for?
Stack Overflow is a question and answer website for professional and enthusiast programmers. It features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. It was created to be a more open alternative to earlier question and answer websites such as Experts-Exchange.
How can I learn Stack Overflow?
Start by following these five practices:
- Don’t forget to upvote. If you’re sure that an answer is correct, upvote it.
- Write comments. It happens that people post wrong answers or stupid questions.
- Read top questions regularly. It’s like the feed on Facebook, but for nerds.
- There’s no shame in asking.
- Answer!
What did Stack Overflow want to be when it grew up?
Understand that you’re reading the weak opinions strongly held the strong opinions weakly held of a co-founder who spent prodigious amounts of time working with the community in the first four years of Stack Overflow’s life to shape the rules and norms of the site to fit their needs. These are merely my opinions.
Which is the most common cause of Stack Overflow?
An error is a mistake that is probably unrecoverable. An exception is an error that can often be handled, so the program can recover. The most common cause of stack overflow is recursion, which means a computer function called itself and is piling way too much stuff on the stack with no way to pop it back off.
What happens when there is too much stuff in the stack?
You see, the stack usually can hold only so much stuff. Typically, we allocate (set aside) where the stack is going to be in memory and how big it can get. So, when we stick too much stuff there or try to remove nothing, we will generate a stack overflow condition or stack underflow condition, respectively.
What’s the point of the stack overflow exercise?
No. But I’d trust them with Joel’s life! The whole point of the Stack Overflow exercise is that it’s not beholden to me, or Joel, or any other Great Person. Stack Overflow works because it empowers regular everyday programmers all over the world, just like you, just like me.