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  • SuperSoftAbby@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m constantly baffled by my coding professor suggesting stackoverflow to students for asking questions because of the experience I am seeing others have there. The new ones are always downvoted and the only reply usually just calls the person stupid. I’d just kinda accepted that this was the culture I was going to matriculate into when I graduate.

    • impulse@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I once handed in a citation from an answer to my Stack Overflow question.

      Something along the lines of… “After hitting a roadblock the community at Stack Overflow was consulted, as suggested in the lecture, and deemed the task not feasible [1].”

      The answer I put in the reference was one of the many variants of “Who in their right mind would do this in Matlab? Use Python instead.”

      I passed lol.