From the course: Introduction to Career Skills in Software Development
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Learn where to get help - Python Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Career Skills in Software Development
Learn where to get help
- [Presenter] Finding answers when you run into issues writing your programs will make you a more successful programmer. It's a known fact that software tends to have bugs. So you're not doomed as a programmer if you run into issues when writing and running your code. But when you're first getting started, what can you do to figure out why your code is misbehaving? I'll share three resources that you can turn to for getting yourself unstuck. The first is the official documentation for your programming language. For example, here's the documentation for the Python programming language. You can find numerous code examples and explanations of what the various commands do and their expected behavior. This will help you understand why your code may not be doing what you're expecting. When you come across errors that you don't understand, the best thing to do is look them up on stackoverflow.com. Here you can copy and paste the…
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