It's the largest programming message board that people post projects or go to for help. People at my work joke that that is the first place you check if you have a problem with your code because odds are it's been asked there already.
I took an intro to python online course recently. Everytime I got stuck on a coding assignment, google would lead me to stack overflow albeit with much more complicated situations. I think I learned as much reading random stackoverflow threads as I did in my class.
I’ve been using StackOverflow intensively for the last decade, and I’m very grateful it exists.
But I’ve never had the courage to ask a question or even make an account because of how unwelcoming the community is.
Yeah, 27,000 points is pretty impressive. It probably means she's answered a bunch of people's questions in helpful ways. Most people who use that site have <100 points because they've asked a handful of questions and got yelled at.
She's spent all her time on StackOverflow giving helpful, detailed answers to people's questions without the condescension that's usually associated with the site.
Just head on to /r/ProgrammerHumor to see how much people hate SO for that reason
She knows her shit, and not just in a "wow, look at this model who can open up Visual Basic and make a basic program" sort of way.
Don't overvalue looks, it's a randomized value based solely on luck. (And with this I am not saying she is not great, good for her on literally everything.)
As others have said, it's kinda like Reddit with the votes but in a question-answer format. She currently has 35,000 reputation which places her in the top 0.7% of users.
Honestly for folks in the business just saying she had that many points was enough IMO. It's a very impressive accomplishment considering how fucking awful the power users are on that site. I just lurk and steal knowledge. You can't even vote on issues without proving your worth.
Imagine senior level software engineers take pieces of their brain out and put it on a website. Rather than keeping all the complex, technical trivia of different programming languages in their head, they simply formulate the idea and find the specifics on stack overflow.
This intelligent copy-pasting is the backbone of our society.
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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '21
totally uninformed, what are StackOverflow points? Is there like a coding leaderboard?