While learning to code, I have gathered from others and resources a list of question to ask myself and include as context when messaging or asking for help. Also, these question could possibly help you figure out the problem before you ask for help.
What Do You think the problem is ?
This One is self-explanatory, We must document or write down what we think is the issue, e.g., Whenever the link to view a user post is clicked nothing happens, or I think need to allow the that resources parameters to be permitted in the app.
Try to answer this question like if you had to ask a 5-year-old child, e.g., I think the routes is incorrect?.
What Exactly do you want to happens?
From what you're trying to do what is the end results of that, do you want to display a vies page or do some Tasks on the background and redirect. e.g., Me User Submit a Login Form, I should see my home page displaying this user info.
e.g., If User Log out and accept popup alert, log out and show the root page of the application.
What's Actually happening?
Describe what happens when you're trying to perform what you want to do, e.g., I click on Delete Post link and I get logout the app.
If you are trying to Do X what is happening, you get an error, nothing happens, get log out the app, get redirected to home, So pretty much what happened when you did X.
How did you get there ?
What is the step to get to the error you just got, or describe the action taken to get where you are. e.g., Login and click on X them Performed Y and Here I am.
Basically, You got to trace back the step you took before you arrive at the error or location you're at now.
What Have you tried So Far?
Have you tried anything to resolve the problem, if so, take notes. e.g., did you look up the error code write take note, did you change an object or a parameter somewhere take notes, all of this step are important to help you solve the problem.
Have You look on your notes to see if you have encountered this error before.
I changed X To Y because I though this, or I changed the @post to @posts i think i needed all the posts, no just one post.
- NOTE: This is one of 30 blogs that I would be attempting to write over the next 30 days to improve my writing skills.
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