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49 questions linked to/from How to get the best value out of Code Review - Asking Questions
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What makes a good question? [duplicate]
I think it would be a good idea to compile a list of guidelines on how to ask good question. What information should be present, how to structure it, etc.
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Frequently Posted Comments
On Code Review we often encounter questions with the same kind of problem over and over again.
Some of us are using the auto comments script which allows you to maintain a list of comments to post.
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A guide to Code Review for Stack Overflow users
You're on Stack Overflow and you've found a question that seems to be about improving code. You are trying to be helpful, and you put a comment in the question:
You should try asking on CodeReview....
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Checklist for how to write a good Code Review question
Many questions of new users lack some parts or common style of the site. There already are some meta questions that aggregate tips on this issue but letting new users walk through all of them is ...
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For an iterative review, is it okay to edit my own question to include revised code?
Is it okay to edit the question to include the improved code?
I would like to do so for the following reasons:
To share the improved code with others
To show the answering persons that I take their ...
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Must the code be "clean"?
I have working code that I want reviewed, but it is not clean. It made the correct output but there are comments and bad names. Is it not ready for review, and must the code be clean to get reviewed ...
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How to post a follow-up question?
Sometimes I stumble upon follow-up questions, where code is being posted again after having gone through a review (or two).
Examples of possible sets of follow up questions:
Find missing numbers - ...
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Please provide me feedback on my badly received questions
Two of my questions were down-voted as -3 and -4. I couldn't understand the problem with them. But if at-least 3 people are down-voting something is bad with them. Nobody commented or answered or ...
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Am I misunderstanding the basis for Code Review?
I posted a question that seems to have gotten some commentless downvotes.
Fetching a set of event IDs from a database based on a set of company IDs
Keeping it meta, did I misunderstand something about ...
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Asking about code in a pull request to my code base
I want to do something that is a little unusual, but not obviously off-topic. As a result, I thought I'd post here first.
I got a pull request into a code base I (professionally) maintain. I'd like ...
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How can I make this comment asking for better titles more polite and friendly?
My question is very much related to Stop mentioning major concerns in title.
Generic "My Code Smells. How do I refactor." titles are not very good for the site. I edit titles when I have a clear ...
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Stop mentioning major concerns in title
On the Ask a Question page, users are currently faced with this:
state the purpose of your code, and mention any major concerns.
I have recently started commenting on many questions with this ...
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What is the best way to ask about distinct aspects of a project?
I have a project that I've undertaken to better understand several distinct aspects of the language and system I'm learning and am wondering what the best approach to asking about these aspects is.
I'...
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Let's update the modal for new askers
The Issue
There are many posts on CR that are off-topic for various reasons... Sometimes 10-20 per day! Apparently many users don't read/heed the text on the right side (i.e. "Your question must ...
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Should I include code or a link to a test project for the code being reviewed?
I have some code (a library) of about 25,000 characters (~1000 lines) that I would like to have reviewed.
I have a test project (Windows project with Windows Forms) for that code. Is it a good idea ...
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Titles that reference external resources
A couple of us disagreed (in comments) on whether titles that are nothing more than external references, such as "Advent of Code 2019 Day 3, Part 3" and "Project Euler nº 5", are reasonable.
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Is it appropriate to ask for review on an entire GitHub repo?
I have a Python application that I created a while back and I'm hoping to have someone with more Python experience than me look over the entire project and let me know if both the structure of the ...
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What could be done to improve this question?
A few weeks ago I posted a question to this site. I thought I was getting low views so I even put up a bounty for this question. Now after the bounty is almost ended, I still have no comments or ...
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Are Code Golf King-of-the-Hill controller programs allowed here?
I am in the process of writing a KOTH challenge for Code Golf (it's on the meta sandbox), and like for all KOTH challenges I need to write some code to pit everyone's bot against each other. I've done ...
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Insufficient "How to ask"
As a newbie coming to CR and asking the very first question you can see
There's nothing about broken code there and many new questions seem to get closed quickly because of it.
Moreover, it names no ...
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Good format to post code for review
I have a project that I used to try out in-memory databases. After fighting it for a few days, I'm code blind and need to have it reviewed. I haven't been on this particular site much (I'm well ...
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Is CR targeted at anyone else except the OP?
As a person who joined Stack Overflow about 15 years ago I am always curious to see what new flavours of my favourite Q&A site emerge every year.
So from time to time google takes me to ...
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Negative engagement, ganging up, question closing, downvoting
I am relatively new to Code Review, so I don't know if this Stack Exchange site suffers particularly from counter-productive interaction by negatively critical senior users but I'm certainly seeing it ...
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Offering a Bounty for a long unanswered question; is it good practice?
Thank ye all for your patience and understanding in advance. Posted a Code Review question 4 years ago and it has never received an answer review, so thinking about offering a bounty for it. Is this ...
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How can I ask interesting questions as a beginner?
Here at Code Review, we, the reviewers volunteering our time, are deciding to use our time to focus on improving something we found on this site. Because of this, questions must be interesting. It is ...
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Is it acceptable to ask for help refactoring code?
I've recently started working with Elixir and am working hard to write my code "the elixir way." In doing this, I've written some code which is obviously bad and unreadable.
I would like to post a ...
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Little applet for elo rating system
I have written a bit of Python code with Tkinter to make a small applet to allow people to enter game scores and keep track of their rating (using the elo rating system).
I have an initial meta-...
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Question about "Polymorphic implementation of == with CRTP" on hold as off topic
I have a question about my Code Review Stack Exchange post: Polymorphic implementation for == with CRTP. It was put on hold as off topic stating (mainly) that the use case is theoretic or not ...
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I don't understand the negative feedback on my question
I don't understand the negative feedback on my question Library to uniformly present runtime errors, exceptions, and login errors exceptions
Can anyone help me improve the post, without going out of ...
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Why am I getting downvotes for not working code when it's working code?
I've become a little frustrated with Code Review. They said my code does not output a valid Sudoku when it in fact does. Is it that people are confused of my code and don't realize that it's in fact ...
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Is it bad to reference the best titles?
Recently, on new Code Review questions, I've been seeing this:
Welcome to Code Review! As we all want to make our code more efficient
or improve it in one way or another, try to write a title that
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How should question bodies be organized?
The format that I know for question bodies is:
Intro, often explaining where the problem originated.
A problem statement explaining what the code is supposed to do.
Perhaps a little more ...
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Code review of YouTube video
I have a YouTube playlist that I have created showing my iterative approach on a subject ("C# CUSTOM Script Language Creation").
I know that sites like this one have some limitations as to what is ...
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Requesting a review of part of a small project [duplicate]
I have a project of 300+ lines, however I only want to review a part of the project. The project is hosted on GitHub.
Does that mean that I have to post the full 300+ lines and highlight that I want ...
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Tagging categories - Which are most useful?
TL;DR: I have categorized ~140 tags. I believe some categories should be used more and some categories should be used less. Goal is to make it possible to use tags to find related questions, as well ...
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Are 'follow up' questions on the same/similar code allowed?
I had a code that I submitted here for review, and got a review. Good. But the implementation was primitive, and I have since written a new, more refined implementation, but the concept/intended ...
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Where can I find an expert opinion on a large codebase?
I am a self taught developer that codes for fun, and I created a project that almost certainly has terrible code in it, but I would like someone who knows what they're doing (i.e. not me) to help me ...
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How can I explain my code in Code Review
I am new to Code Review and I am really enthusiastic to post my code for the problems that took me hours to crack. It has really helped me upgrading my poor logic and unoptimized code blocks and ...
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Should I kill my own account?
I have some poorly received posts. Should I kill my account? Should I make all my posts say user227432 with no link?
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Could I have made my question "fast responsive navigation in CSS & jQuery" more attractive/better?
I would carefully like to ask, what (if at all) I could have done to make my question "fast responsive navigation in CSS & jQuery" more attractive and/or interesting for the community? Or is CSS ...
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Put on-hold and off topic 2 time
I have a question about my Code Review Stack Exchange post: Driver for Sensor payload Decoder
I have been trying to get some suggestions on the code which I have written after learning about drivers. ...
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Missing Review Context on stand alone script
My question has been closed for Missing Review Context. I feel like I've had no support or explanation from the community.
The reason why it was closed is out of context.
This is a script that works ...
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Why is my SPOJ question receiving downvotes?
SPOJ- CPP: Gap in output
What is the purpose of so many downvotes?
And what does it mean that the code should be "embedded directly"?
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Non-HTTPS, wrong hostname links in sidebar
The sidebar on https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/ask links to http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/129598. Visiting this ...
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Why was "Check if a variable is one of a set of valid strings" put on hold?
They said:
Questions must involve real code that you own or maintain. Pseudocode, hypothetical code, or stub code should be replaced by a concrete implementation. Questions seeking an explanation of ...
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Is it OK to cross post here and in SO?
This is the dedicated realm in SE to post questions about reviewing one's code. But this is not a SE site that has many members in comparison to SO. The possibility to have this code review helped ...
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Is it possible to have a "professional" take a look at my whole HTML / CSS Project here?
Is it possible to upload an entire HTML/CSS code project on this site for review, rather than just a small code snippet?
I'm currently working on a r/place clone and while my code works fine, it would ...
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Is the review of vocabulary/ontology use (e.g., for HTML structured data) on-topic?
In HTML, structured data is typically added with the syntaxes JSON-LD, Microdata or RDFa. The review of the syntax use is clearly on-topic, just like the use of plain HTML is.
But what about the ...
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How should I ask on the main site without getting too many downvotes to a piece of code that was a P vs NP attempt? [closed]
I wanted to find out my mistakes in the code that could shorten it all together.
I would love to figure out how to address bad variable names
Use enumerate instead of python's range
Use a better ...
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