 Asking for help. We all have to do it at some point even if you're the best programmer in the world There's so much that you need to know that you're not gonna know anything anything everything and Eventually, you're gonna have to look stuff up I mean you're always you're always looking stuff up as a programmer You're always looking stuff up, but occasionally you find things you can't find an answer to you just don't know The right wording or whatever the issue is so you go to a forum or a chat and you ask Okay, so here are two a couple of rules for people asking questions and people answering the questions Because I have issues of the way people do both of them. First of all if you're going to ask if you have code You've been writing and there's something wrong with it Don't just post a screenshot so many times we'll just post a screenshot of their code or even worse They take a picture of their screen with their cell phone Okay, if I'm gonna answer your question I'm not gonna sit there and look at your code and try to guess what's wrong with it I want to run that code on my machine and see what errors I get Maybe you're typing everything right and you're just missing a dependency and if I try to run I go He doesn't probably doesn't have this dependency installed or something like that Always post your code if it's just one or two lines of code put it in the comments If it's more than that you have to post it you should post it somewhere like paste in get love get love Get hub get lab someplace where I can copy that code or download that code and try running it I want to actually run your code to try to find out what's wrong with it Okay on the flip side if you're answering somebody's question actually try to do what you're asking I don't want to call anybody out, but currently I'm having an issue with a program I'm trying to write trying to detect some inputs right and I've asked the code and I said this is what I've tried I posted it right in the comments because only like two lines of code. I tried this and I'm not getting any response I have two people currently trying to help me But it's obvious that they're not actually running what they're saying because there's typos obvious typos That they're they're doing and they're still trying to look at the input the way I've already checked I've already stated. I'm not getting any input when I run this command, okay? And I don't want I get I want to go into specifics because I don't want to call anybody out But it's clear that the code they're posting isn't code that works because again There's typos in it and it just doesn't make sense So basically they're saying I think this is the answer, but they aren't actually trying it and I respond to both of them saying no, that's not working. Did you actually try this and Got it working and they both replied and neither of them actually said yes, I tried this or no I didn't they just said well, this is the code. This is how you do it and they Type the variation again with obvious typos in what they're typing So it's not code that they actually ran and now they're copying and posting for me to try and it's kind of aggravating They shouldn't say this is the answer because I know how to do what they're telling me how to do the thing is the specific Scenario, it's not working and I tried it on multiple devices desktops, laptops, phones, and it's it's not working and they just keep on telling me to do what I already know how to do and It's not working and again It's clear that they aren't actually running the code they're typing because the code is not typed properly If you're going to answer somebody's question You should actually type that code out on your machine run it and see if it works Then copy that and put and post either again in the comments on paste then or get lab or someplace where I can now get that code that you wrote to try it and if it works on your machine and Not on mine. There's something different either. I was typing something wrong But if I'm taking your code and it's not working There's something else different than I need to figure out and I'm doing something different than you But if you're just guessing at what the answer is and you're typing that and not trying it It's like for example one of the responses They put such and such equals such and such Well, the the thing it equals is supposed to be a function supposed to have parentheses and they didn't have the parentheses there So obviously they didn't run this code because they just posted they just type something out knowing Oh, it's this is the the function, but they didn't actually put the parentheses So it's not code that actually runs so I know that they didn't actually run this code and post it so If you're asking a question actually post your code so people can try it don't leave people to guess or have to retype everything that you've posted in a screenshot and If you're answering again run the code first and then give them the code that you ran that you know works That's it. That's it. I'm not trying to be rude I'm trying to just educate people on how to do things properly if you're Asking or even giving advice you should do it in a way that's respectful of the other person and doing these things is just Disrespectful to post a screenshot to where they can't actually run the code or to give them code that you think might be right But it probably isn't okay. Thanks for watching and have a great day To some place a bird just pooped on me a bird just pooped on me I've never been pooped on by a bird before and it just pooped on me