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68 questions linked to/from How do I ask and answer homework questions?
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Please clarify the policy on homework questions [duplicate]
"How to exclude letters while adding numbers in a for loop?" appeared today. It's clearly homework. There's no attempt at a solution, just a bare-bones statement of the problem.
The policy in the ...
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Stack Overflow and homework questions [duplicate]
I've used Stack Overflow over the years, but lately it seems the main purpose of Stack Overflow is for students to post their homework and ask for "help" without even trying to run the code ...
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How do I flag lazy homework questions? [duplicate]
There's already a question on this topic here: What should I flag homework/tell me what this does questions?. Unfortunately it doesn't have an answer.
There's another question about how to ask good ...
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Cheating them out of an education or it’s just hypocrisy [duplicate]
If you read through this post (link to picture for < 10k)), there is a new contributor who has asked a question about reversing a string in Java. He was new to the site and someone provided an ...
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Is it acceptable to ask for the answer of an online course assignment? [duplicate]
I Google-searched "pandas corr" and the third result was this question, which solicits (and receives) the exact answer to an assignment (Question #9) I'm working on. Kind of ruins the fun.
This is ...
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How should a copy-paste of homework be flagged? [duplicate]
I never understood how to properly mark questions like this. A person bellow marked it as
"Questions asking for homework help must include a summary of the work
you've done so far to solve the ...
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How can we prevent users from doing asker's homework for them? [duplicate]
I come across many questions on SO like this one where the user is very new to programming, still needs to learn several foundational concepts, and is likely doing homework or some kind of personal ...
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What is the protocol about answering homework assignments? [duplicate]
I recently saw a question about a homework assignment and the OP had tried his best to show the code he had below the assignment text. But he clearly did not understand the assignment and he got ...
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Should I answer questions that looks like a job interview test? [duplicate]
Recently I came across with some question that at first looked like a common beginner's question about making tests on an API, but after answering it, the guy tells me that the test cases can't be ...
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The Ask Question Wizard (2018) is Live!
Editors note: For the Ask Question Wizard 2022 see Feature Test: Ask Wizard for New Users (trial has completed)
I'm really happy to announce that the Ask Question Wizard is now live on Stack Overflow!...
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The Ask Question Wizard Is Now In Testing!
A long overdue update to our last prototype announcement, our developers are pleased to announce that they've finished the review process and responsive design updates to the Wizard and it is now in ...
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Question with no answers, but issue solved in the comments (or extended in chat)
I often see posts in which no Answer has been offered as such, but the user's problem was solved using advice which appears in the comment section (or in extreme cases in the extended discussion in ...
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Why should I not upload images of code/data/errors?
I am new to Stack Overflow, and I have asked about 5 questions so far. I have uploaded images of my code on most of my questions. On two separate occasions, two different users advised me not to ...
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We-are-not-a-code-writing-service comments. Are they the good, the bad, or the ugly?
There's a lot of "We are not a code writing service" comments being flagged. The flag rate for them is increasing and there's now some custom flags complaining about users who write this in their ...
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