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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 Don't close questions for lack of detail/confusion

tl;dr: When a question is unclear, don't close right away, especially if it's possible to discern what they are trying to ask. Instead, use comments and edit suggestions to work with the asker and ...

2 answers  ·  posted 1mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Meta How should I organize material about text encoding in Python into questions?

I want to write one or more self-answered Q&As on the topic of text encoding in Python, to serve as canonicals and preempt future lower-quality questions. I can think of the following things th...

3 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Meta How to best ask about algorithmic problems

The question How to efficiently remove every occurrence of one string inside another and discussions in the comments there got me thinking about the best way to ask about algorithmic problems. In p...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭