[SOUND] If
you do any kind of development at all, especially web development, there will
definitely come a point where you're going to have to ask some help from somebody.
And what I'd like to do in this lecture is give you a couple of resources where you
can ask for help, as well as give you some tips and tools that you can use in order
to make your questions better and easier to communicate.
Now, obviously if you have any questions regarding the course or
even the coding questions inside the course you are more than welcome to ask
these questions at coursera.org.
However there are resources that you could use to get help and
get answers to your questions.
And one of the premier resources on the web is stackoverflow.com.
I cannot tell you how many times this site saved me in my development,
because I did know something or something was difficult to figure out.
And the community developer community out there is huge and it's ready to help you.
And as you can certainly go and turn around and
contribute to the developer community back through the site as well.
So stackoverflow.com, definitely remember this website.
Now when you ask coding questions, it's obviously very helpful to the people who
you are asking the question from if they can look at your code.
And you can't really shift the entire code to them, so one way of
doing it is just to cut and paste your codes straight into the question itself.
And you could probably get away with that a lot of the times, but
it's usually much more helpful for you to provide some actual working code,
that the people looking at it can look at it and diagnose and help you with it.
You'll certainly get your chances of answering a question, and answering
a question quickly much higher if you provide something that they can work with.
Well there's a couple websites I'd like to show you that can help you with that,
especially when we're talking about web development.
One of them is called, jsfiddle.net.
And what the site does it lets you write HTML, CSS, JavaScript code and
share that code via link.
So I'll give you a very quick example, I'll just write, h1, and
say Hello Coursera.
And if I click Run, you'll see that in the result pane, I have Hello Coursera!
Well I can go to my css pane and change that real quick and
I know we haven't learn about CSS yet, but just bear with me here.
And I could change it and say that the color which should be red.
So if I run it again, now the color of Coursera, Hello Coursera, becomes red.
Now if I click the Save button right here,
I'll get a unique URL that I could then copy and paste.