Wikipedia talk:Reference desk/How to ask a software question
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Different audience[edit]
I suspect this page would be twice as useful if it were instead aimed at novice, confused computer users who are having trouble operating their machines, rather than at coders. I suspect coders are 12 times better at asking questions about computers than are novice users. Tempshill (talk) 04:43, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
- I agree with your last sentence, but this page was not aimed at that audience, and a page that covered both would scare off the non-developers. Perhaps a good move would be to copy this page to "How to ask a software development question", and then change this page's focus to software use. --Sean 18:48, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
You missed a bit[edit]
The answer is given by using information which was never provided (specifically, the source code). I wouldn't be any good at writing an example code, so I leave it to someone who can... Vimescarrot (talk) 23:38, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
- Arg. The source code was actually removed by some dickhead spammer, but is back now. Thanks for the heads up. --Sean 05:39, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Broken link[edit]
The last external link appears to be (effectively) broken. There doesn't appear to be any real content on it.