Programming Help Guidelines

[queenofcorgis]

Need help with your projects or want to talk about programming tools, concepts, languages, and frameworks? This category is the place for you! But before you post, read on through to ensure your post meets our guidelines.

✅ What is allowed in this category:

• Questions for help regarding software development and programming concepts & languages
• Asking for feedback on a software development project or finding projects that are in need of contributors
• Conversations about open source news and opinions on tooling/packaging

❌What is not allowed in this category:

• Asking people to code for you or homework/test questions
• Posting or seeking job listings or contests
• Self-promoting your projects or advertising of any kind
• Badge Hunting

If you post something that is not allowed, your post may be removed without notice and you may receive a temporary ban 🛑.

If you’re interested in learning more about this category, we’ve put together a FAQ below.

FAQs

How can I get help with my programming/project question?

To ensure the best chance of help with your programming question, it’s essential that you follow a few guidelines.

1. Use the appropriate label on your topic 🏷️. This will signal to everyone that you need help and in which area.
2. If this pertains to specific GitHub features, add another label to your topic that indicates said feature(s) . This will allow the answerers to have a deeper understanding of the issue you’re facing.
3. Provide as much context as possible surrounding your question ✏️. Remember, the people who are here trying to help you probably haven’t heard of your project and don’t know the particular challenges that you’ve been dealing with. The more context you provide, the easier it will be for people to help you.
4. Provide a link to a Gist, a pull request, or to code in your repository 🔗. GitHub has a lot of tools for getting help and doing code reviews. It’s worth taking advantage of these tools to help yourself and the people working with you.
5. When your question has been answered, mark your topic as solved ✅. This will allow people to see at a glance which questions still need help and which ones have already been answered.
6. Give kudos to people who help you 👏. Everyone likes to be recognized for their contributions. If someone has been genuinely helpful, giving them kudos is an easy way to thank someone and also to indicate to the community who the helpers are.

Can I use ChatGPT to answer questions?

While we encourage non-AI answers to questions in community, we also love experimenting and using new technologies. We ask if you do use ChatGPT or similar programs, please disclose what software and model version number you used to generate the response you used in your reply in order to promote transparency in the community.

ChatGPT answers in a tone that sounds like a tech support professional and while we support trying out this software, it is important to verify that they are solutions before posting otherwise it may mislead users into thinking that they are receiving official responses when they are not.

Per ChatGPT's website, the program does have limitations like:

• "May occasionally generate incorrect information"
• "May occasionally produce harmful instructions"
• "Limited knowledge of world and events after 2021"

Please keep the above in mind as we support trying out new software, but recognize it is valuable to other community members that solutions are verified to be correct, in order to uphold the GitHub Community’s quality standards.

What do I gain from answering questions?

In addition to the warm, fuzzy feelings ❤️‍🔥 that come with helping others, answering questions and offering help is a great way to hone your skills and ultimately influence the next generation of programmers. Answering questions regularly is also a great way to gain a reputation among your peers for being a helpful and friendly expert in your field.

I’m just getting started with Git and programming languages - how do I start?

We created evergreen threads for resources, advice, and basic questions. Feel free to start there with our Getting Started with Git ⌨️ thread and Getting Started with Programming Languages Hub before creating your own discussion.

I feel ready to join the professional world; is there anywhere I can go for advice?

First off, that’s awesome, and congratulations on taking the step from amateur to professional coder. We have a Discussion already open with helpful links and advice - but keep the party going and ask what is on your mind 🧠.

Can you help me with a project that is hosted on GitHub?

If you're asking how to use the piece of software that you found in a repository on GitHub, the best way is to first contact the maintainers by:

• Checking the README for instructions on how to operate the software and pointers to documentation or troubleshooting info.
• Checking the SUPPORT file, if one exists, for instructions on how to best contact the maintainers for support.
• Checking the CONTRIBUTING guide, if one exists. Sometimes if there isn't a SUPPORT file, the CONTRIBUTING guide will give instructions on how to contact the maintainers for support.

All of these documents can be found, if they exist, in the repository where you found the software itself.

Happy programming!

[ghost]

[strong899]

Please help me make sense of this assignment and how answer. sets I need to do????????
You discovered a discrepancy with the credit card files, worldbanc is supposed to be keeping credit history records but they aren't there! Change into the worldbanc/public/products/credit_cards directory and create a new file named credithistory.txt so they can keep track of that information.

Use ls to verify that the file has been created successfully. Then paste the output of that command into the input field and submit it.

[strong899]

The answer they want is this???? why and how did this happen??
jointrewardsplux.txt
creditplus.txt
freedomunited.txt
economypoints.txt
travelrewards.txt
worldbanccard.txt
credithistory.txt

[queenofcorgis]

@strong899 You're more likely to get a response if you start a new discussion in this category.

[ajay1931]

i want a good API for the Weather Applications. But i couldn't find Free API

https://openweather.co.uk/
use this website you can get api for free

[Flowery7]

Here is a list of API for all kinds of stuff. There are some good weather ones too. https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

[abaawe]

I am looking for a way to send a set of information to a database and receive this data again... in real time, that is, in real time.... without any delay............. I do not want to use Node js, I don't want to use RealTime Databases, I don't want to use MoongoDB, just PHP, SQL, and JavaScript.

[jmerc77]

Its been a while since i used php and sql, however, your question is a tad vague. Obviously, you can send and receive data from a database with those but, no matter how advanced technology gets, there will always be some delay. Weather its a few picoseconds or hours depends on distance and the type of communication used between devices. 0 time delays are impossible due to the laws of physics. The upper limit is the speed of light in a vacuum. So i am assuming you mean a really small latency but, there's no mention of what is small enough to be acceptable in your application based on your question.

Edit: just notice the reply of the details of how to set up the connection. Mobile version of git is a bit weird. Still, be sure to be clear about your requirements. And realistic.

[brunaszarin]

🏷️API/DATABASE/PROBABLY A DUMB QUESTION
I know it may sounds a quite dumb question, but i feel a little of a hardship to grasp the functioning of an API, and how others can access it and use it. I've alredy implemented some api's in my projects, but it still feels off to me, mainly about, its functioning behind the scenes. Somone have some good advice on books, articles or any good teacher on youtube to help me to undestand that?

[rachidabdelhak]

how does archive.org use python in arabic books collections maagement

[Babicakes2981]

hello i'm new to git hub, coding , or should i say it all. i've been trying to figure out where to begin and/or where to start. i've learned how to create a whole python code and a few things in a few other languages. but they never told me how and/or what is the point of using a terminal and im trying to learn some of the security analyst. im on here and im on here and is lost. i tried to understand what im doing and try to figure out what im trying to do to learn but i need some help, advice where and how to grow my skills so far and more im interested in developing code and data analyst cyber security please help for any free good course or training i can do to get better thank you all so much. i cant wait to have some of you all skills

[AdityaSrivastava185]

Hello there , i am looking for feedback on a reactjs based project and if there is anyone who can help me with react-redux pure concepts docs from basics to advance i would be happy to connect reactjs-project
Thank you

[AdityaSrivastava185]

Hello , I want to start building a full stack project but i am confused between the tech stacks , should i choose mern stack or build with (mongodb , express , nodejs and ejs ) stack to build the application , and also that if i would build with ejs template engine is it still going to help me in future like mern stack or not , is choosing ejs a good option ?? Please help me to solve this issue

[MdRashid62]

Have you built the project yet?

[AdityaSrivastava185]

Yes 👍