How to Ask Questions of Software Developers

Subject: How to Ask Questions of Software Developers
From: "Grant, Christopher" <CGrant -at- glhec -dot- org>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 16:50:37 -0500


Hi everyone.

In a recent thread about how to deal with being shoved out of the
development process, a discussion about stupid and intelligent questions
came up. I just wanted to pass on this link to information that I found
pretty helpful in learning how to ask questions that made developers WANT to
hear what I had to ask, rather than seeing me as a work impediment.

If you aren't familiar with terms like STFW and RTFM, then this will may be
a particularly good read. YYMV, of course. :)

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

My apologies in advance if this has been posted before.

-Chris Grant


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