Questions tagged [tutorials]
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Optional interactive training for Stack Exchange features and privileges
One of the best ways to learn is by doing. The introductory messages for the review queues are nice (especially now that I have dismissed them all for every site I participate on), but text isn't the ...
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A mini tutorial for those new to Stack Overflow [closed]
so I joined Stack Overflow last week to get one of my questions answered. However, it took me almost an hour to just understand how to form the question (formatting the code so that it would show up ...
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Providing tutorials in the comments instead of in the answers
I find myself often wanting to give a user a tutorial rather than explaining an answer to a user. Sometimes, a tutorial can explain the answer to a user's question much better than I'm able to, ...
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Is a question about how to find a tutorial allowed?
I want to ask a question related to finding good Windows 8 tutorials. For example, web sites I could go to for Windows 8 tricks. Would that be an appropriate question for Stack Overflow? Is that too ...
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Can we flag tutorial questions?
I was wondering if it's OK for me to flag questions regarding tutorials? IMHO, there is no need to ask questions about a tutorial on SO, they should be directed towards the provider of the tutorial, ...
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Is there any place to put my own how to? [duplicate]
I have found a way to do something (safely remove of OAuth of .NET MVC4 application) on my own. I've searched a lot on the internet about this and can't find how to.
There's any place here that I can ...
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Will it be fine if I post 'for beginner' style tutorials/articles on SO?
I would just like to ask if it will be within the established guidelines here for me to post tutorials/articles on basic topics like parsing XML with Java, traversing the drive and so on which are ...
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Is it inappropriate to post long answers with sample illustrations?
I usually post long answers to questions with some illustrations of how to simulate the problem, where applicable, and possible option to fix it. My understanding of posting an answer is to make it ...
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Review queue tutorial
Personally, I feel sometimes confused when rejecting suggested edits, which one option to choose between Invalid edit, Radical change or even Vandalism...
I propose, that it would be nice to have an ...
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Should I encourage questions asking for a tutorial link or code snippet?
I have seen many questions on SO which ask for a tutorial on some specific topic or some functionality. Some users say "this is not a good place to ask for a tutorial" or "hit Google". But maybe some ...
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Getting started with Stack Apps
I am new to Stack Apps, so need help in getting started:
A tutorial on Stack Apps.
What languages I need to learn to get started with Stack Apps.
List of apps in Stack Apps.
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Create a guided tour for new users
New users of a Stack Exchange site may not fully understand how the site works. For example, the user may not know how to vote, what reputation is, how to format a question or answer, or how to ...
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We should encourage high quality organizational and "guide" style questions, rather than closing them
I just noticed that Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide was closed and locked just over a month ago with the note that such questions are no longer accepted by the community.
Is this ...
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Should Stack Overflow become the place to come to find good "getting started" tutorials? [closed]
There have been a few questions on here in the past about whether there is a place for tutorials/"how to" articles on Stack Overflow (for example, here and here). But I didn't see anyone make a ...
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RFC - Stack Exchange 2-minute intro
EDIT NEW! - taking into account the feedback from Robert and Jeff, here is a new, simpler, shorter 2-minute intro to Stack Exchange.
Stack Exchange 2-minute intro (choose full-screen option for ...
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What's the best way to post a tutorial?
I went looking for answers to a question I had, but didn't find what I was looking for. Now that I've found the answer myself, I'd like to share what I've learned.
What's the best way to do this, if ...
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Stack Overflow training guide - a video maybe?
Whilst trawling through the new review feature a common theme I see in posts are:
broken code formatting (PHP GET problem - no form $_GET data is present)
wall of code
I know this was suggested some ...
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Section for tutorials and guides [duplicate]
Many of the important things I have learned about programming best practices and security, have come from questions like this: Guide to Website Authentication. Can we have a way to aggregate all of ...
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Tutorial section for Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Moving a personal technical blog to stackoverflow / serverfault
Many (most?) of the questions I've seen on Stack Overflow are specific to a narrowly-defined problem set, e.g., ...
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Why do they specify "makefile" tag instead of "make"? [closed]
I see many questions on Stackoverflow with strange tag pickups. They have [makefile] tag but they don't have such tags as [make], [qmake], [gnumake] etc. It happens that there are about 200 of such ...
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Stack Overflow tutorials/papers
Should Stack Overflow be expanded to include user-submitted papers and articles, which can then rake in higher scores based upon the quality of their work? Authors of tutorials/papers could be granted ...
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