Questions tagged [resource-questions]
questions asking for resources - books, links, tutorials, articles, tools, libraries etc
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Are book recommendations on-topic?
We get a lot of book recommendation questions, so much so that it's hard to keep up with them.
We've been closing them as off-topic, not a real question, and not constructive based on a few different ...
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Are "I'm looking for X" questions on topic?
The question Is there something else like SquareSpace out there? (10k link) reminded me that there is nothing explicit in our FAQ about shopping recommendation questions. The question starts out with:
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Is our current process of handling resource request questions sufficient?
Right now, we're operating on some community discussions from several years ago:
Are book recommendations on-topic? (July 2011)
What's up with all the book recommendation flags? (December 2011)
The ...
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Why are "reference request" questions off topic?
My question was closed. Robert Harvey says:
Questions asking for links to external resources are more or less off-topic throughout the Stack Exchange network. That's what search engines are for.
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What's up with all the book recommendation flags?
There have been a ton of book recommendation questions, some fairly old with helpful answers, flagged as not constructive today. According to the last discussion on this, most of these qualify as ...
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Resource questions - automatic close?
Book (or resource) on Java bytecode was recently asked.
I voted to close immediately, without really reading (or understanding) much of of the question.
Should questions that request resources get ...
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Why did a question about programming books get closed on Programmers.SE?
So, today I wrote a question that follows the general pattern for book questions on Programmers (Is there a canonical book on [x]?) about a topic that's definitely related to programming (data ...
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Can I ask for resource recommendations here?
I wish to ask what are the good resources to understand Python source code written in C language. Like there a book for Ruby i.e. Ruby under a microscope. It deals with low level implementation of ...
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