Stack Overflow recently launched their Documentation beta. I propose we make Documentation for Programmers.SE, too.
As Jeff Atwood said in his blog post,
Stack Overflow is for when you're front of your compiler or editor working through code issues. Programmers is for when you're in front of a whiteboard working through higher level conceptual programming issues.
So if we use the same reasoning for Documentation:
Stack Overflow Documentation teaches you how to use malloc()
, while Programmers Documentation teaches you memory management concepts.
Stack Overflow Documentation teaches you how to create a SQL database entity in PHP, while programmers Documentation teaches you about data structures and their usage.
Should there be Documentation for Programmers too?