Questions tagged [asking-questions]
This tag is for questions specifically about the process of asking questions on Code Review; e.g. how to ask, whether specific questions are appropriate, etc.
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Should [programming-challenge] questions require a summary of the challenge?
Project Euler has been offline for several days, after the site was hacked.
Problem is, a large number of our questions relate to Project Euler, and many of them do not contain any description of the ...
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Reviewing software, not only code
I'm looking for some people/community who are doing each others' software reviews, but not only code. Actually code is the least important. I would like somebody look at my software as a whole and ...
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Asking for comparison of design of two code snippets giving same functionality
I had asked for the review of the part of a jQuery and as per the answer I made changes in the file. Now after making the changes (mainly moving from triggers to functions) I am not so sure whether I ...
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Should a post with no specific question(s) imply a general review?
I've started thinking about this more after seeing this question.
I'm sometimes tempted to vote such questions as not clear what you're asking, but I also feel that it's not quite needed for this ...
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How should a canonical question title be formatted on Code Review?
See the following 2 questions and their title edits:
Calculations with a table containing football data (revisions)
Database output function (revisions)
While I understand that having all questions ...
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How should really big code challenge submissions be reviewed? [duplicate]
As far as I am aware, a question consisting of a really big codebase is generally off-topic here, as our answerers are simply not able to put so much effort in it.
I'd like to talk about a special ...
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Codeblock detection
The idea jumped at me after reviewing two close votes in a row (granted, from the same user) that were homework assignments without any code in it.
Since a question that has no code in it (or one ...
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Reviewing usefulness of code
I was wondering if, as part of asking for a review here, can I ask about how useful my code is? That is, getting feedback about what possible use-cases the code I have written has and if people would ...
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Ask for review on JavaScript code style/structure, usage of patterns, and general quality of the solution
I have code I want to get reviews for. It's not a particular problem, and the code actually works wonders.
I just want to see what other experts can suggest in order to make it better, improve style,...
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Can I ask a question to review an FAQ written on a third-party site?
I wrote an FAQ on a third-party website related to Delphi and thread-protection of objects. I need some feedback if this content is adequate or not. I was wondering can I ask a question on Code Review ...
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Are questions on design only requiring minimal code off topic?
I asked this question which someone has flagged as off topic, referencing a question that referred to pseudo code as a reason. My question is in regards to the overall design and not changes to how ...
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Questions about documentation
Are questions about writing/improving documentation appropriate and on-topic for Code Review? And if so, should there be a documentation tag?
Let's be clear--I'm not talking about questions seeking ...
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Is there a need for the OP to mention their expertise?
Is it relevant to include expertise with a code review question? Should this change the code review/answer?
For example, this question mentions that the OP is new to the language. I suggested an edit ...
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Reviews of code not stored here
This question is inspired by a question I just saw: Review website done after one week of learning HTML and CSS
How do we want to handle these issues? We wanted to avoid pastebins since having the ...
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Questions that ask for you to e-mail them to get the code
What is the appropriate way to handle a question that doesn't post the code to review, but posts an e-mail address that you can I assume e-mail and get the code?
A (now-deleted) example is:
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Is it okay to ask questions about algorithm help?
I have code that solves the "Traveling Salesman" problem using "Kruskal's algorithm" for a code competition site.
The code run and generates the correct result, but has O(n3) complexity. I am not ...
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Review code on Github? [duplicate]
Someone might sometimes want a review of a longer length of code: for example this question references some code stored here on their private web site.
It isn't necessarily feasible or desirable to ...
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Good question, but OP didn't know how to ask it?
In Calculating Julian dates, the author asks a question that doesn't make sense:
Refactor this code so that I don't have to insert the parameters any time I need to use one of the functions.
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What's the proper way to ask for database review?
I'm currently designing a database that I wanted to get some input on. It's entirely theoretical at this point, I haven't written a single line of SQL. Would it be acceptable to just post the database ...
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"How To Ask" text should link to help center, not faq
Similar to my question here, Code Review's "How To Ask" text should link to the help center, rather than the FAQ:
Interestingly, CR's Meta seems to be more up to date than SO's:
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Encouraging users to include a code-snippet that proves that their code works
I have stumbled across some questions where it is hard to determine whether or not the code in the question actually works or not.
Example #1: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/35616/...
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Cross-posting etiquette
Is it okay to copy a previous post from Stack Overflow, in the interests of building questions during the beta stage of Code Review?
I'm perfectly happy with the answers I received for the question ...
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Is it valid to reask (many) question on same script?
I have asked a question about a Python script a few months ago. Now I have developed that script furthermore fixing the issues described in the answer of that question.
Now I have another questions ...
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What does a piece of code need to satisfy to be a "real project" by itself?
Currently, the FAQ provides the following guidelines:
Code Review - Stack Exchange is for sharing code from projects you are working on for peer review.
You should only ask practical, answerable ...
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