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Asking for help... the right way ⭐️

Some ideas that will help those who are looking for help in a community without looking silly 🤪

My best processes and questions to ask:

  1. Do your own research first. Google is your best friend. Seriously, use it.
  2. Find your happy medium.
    • What type of content do you intake best from and can retain?
      • Reading? Watching videos? Listening to audio?
      • Find what works best for you!
  3. Notate your process. This will be important later
    • Write down:
      • What you know
      • What you are looking for
      • Where you looked
      • How you looked for "it"
        • What was your Google search?
        • What was your prompt?
      • What did you learn (if anything) from these searches
  4. Find the proper channel or outlet to ask your question.
    • Does the channel or outlet have a safe environment to ask the question?
      • Do they encourage learning?
    • Do they have a specfic channel related to your question or topic?

Creating your ❔

  1. Look at your process you notated.
  2. Craft your question.
    • Make them concise as possible without glazing over the bullets shown above.
    • Take out filler lanugage like "I just do not know what to do" and "I was hoping..."
      • You would not be asking the question if you did not know what to do and actively looking for help...
  3. Find where to ask your question
    • This can be in whatever program you are using or have access to. i.e Discord, Slack, Teams, etc...
    • If you see fit, give your question a 'title' or 'header' to give those you are asking your queestion a quick top-down idea of what your issue is.
    • Paste your question, findings, process, and ultimately ask for help.
      • This will show your team/community you have tried to find the solution on your own and that you are capable of doing your own research.

CONGRATS! YOU'RE DONE! 🥳

Now you can engage with your communtiy or team to find the solution to your problem or answer to your question.

One other thing...

The answer may be a simple one. Something you overlooked. This is NOT against you. This is the whole point of asking a question, even if you feel like it's a dumb one.

This is good communication practice. You're not an idiot.

Running the script 📜

  • The script must be ran with python3.
    • Anything earlier will not function as intended.
python3 script.py
# Please use Python3 over Python2.7
  • It's that easy :)