Questions tagged [tutorials]
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Create a guided tour for new users
New users of a Stack Exchange site may not fully understand how the site works. For example, the user may not know how to vote, what reputation is, how to format a question or answer, or how to ...
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Stack Overflow tutorials/papers
Should Stack Overflow be expanded to include user-submitted papers and articles, which can then rake in higher scores based upon the quality of their work? Authors of tutorials/papers could be granted ...
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What's the best way to post a tutorial?
I went looking for answers to a question I had, but didn't find what I was looking for. Now that I've found the answer myself, I'd like to share what I've learned.
What's the best way to do this, if ...
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RFC - Stack Exchange 2-minute intro
EDIT NEW! - taking into account the feedback from Robert and Jeff, here is a new, simpler, shorter 2-minute intro to Stack Exchange.
Stack Exchange 2-minute intro (choose full-screen option for ...
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Stack Overflow training guide - a video maybe?
Whilst trawling through the new review feature a common theme I see in posts are:
broken code formatting (PHP GET problem - no form $_GET data is present)
wall of code
I know this was suggested some ...
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Should Stack Overflow become the place to come to find good "getting started" tutorials? [closed]
There have been a few questions on here in the past about whether there is a place for tutorials/"how to" articles on Stack Overflow (for example, here and here). But I didn't see anyone make a ...
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Why do they specify "makefile" tag instead of "make"? [closed]
I see many questions on Stackoverflow with strange tag pickups. They have [makefile] tag but they don't have such tags as [make], [qmake], [gnumake] etc. It happens that there are about 200 of such ...
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Will it be fine if I post 'for beginner' style tutorials/articles on SO?
I would just like to ask if it will be within the established guidelines here for me to post tutorials/articles on basic topics like parsing XML with Java, traversing the drive and so on which are ...
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Should I encourage questions asking for a tutorial link or code snippet?
I have seen many questions on SO which ask for a tutorial on some specific topic or some functionality. Some users say "this is not a good place to ask for a tutorial" or "hit Google". But maybe some ...
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Tutorial section for Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Moving a personal technical blog to stackoverflow / serverfault
Many (most?) of the questions I've seen on Stack Overflow are specific to a narrowly-defined problem set, e.g., ...
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