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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

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Meta Questions easily answered by studying a beginner-level book

This scenario is not yet a problem for this site, but we will get there, since it's a huge problem for Stack Overflow: Someone just picks up a well-known programming language for the first time. T...

6 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Meta Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here?

There is a new page What type of questions can I ask here? (found under Help -> Guidance.) I'll quote it as whole below, for convenience. Please give feedback on specific items in the list that ...

15 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Should we allow questions about installation and configuration of software development tools?

A recent flag for this question suggested that it would be a better fit for the Linux community. There is no motivation provided, but I guess it is related to the fact that most of the question and...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Meta Site scope - draft proposal [duplicate]

EDIT: This discussion thread is mostly obsolete now that a new draft has been posted on the site. Please take further discussion & proposals to this meta post instead: Community feedback: What ...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  closed as duplicate 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Are questions about web browsers on topic on Software Applications?

I have recently posted this question on Web Application SE and I am wondering if such a question would be on-topic here. The questions deals with understanding a feature of Google Chrome Developer ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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