Take a look at my profile and the number of fans I have. I've been in development for 29 years out of university and help a lot of people here. There are some areas I don't have experience in so can't help much.
A lot depends on the questions of the person (e.g., write this complex program for me doesn't get much of an answer). I spend a lot of time helping people off line also (I will get request sent direct to me) - I am helping one person with a multi-threading issue also.
Also depends on time of day - I work and sleep so cannot spend all day looking for answers.
The other thing is, look at the leaderboard for this section. THere are a lot of people here that do help.
It may not be as good as a programming forum because there are a large number of newbies or development wanna-be's, but yep, complex answers do get solved.
If you post a question and want to forward it to me (you can email from my profile) I'll take a look when online. I'm better at systems programming, C/C++/C#, VB than other areas.Does anyone actually have programming experience, do programming questions ever get answered?
1. There are too many questions badly formulated that won't even been looked at, like ';Please, help???';.
2. There are many questions incorrectly formulated, like ';help with Php';. When you look, the question is pure HTML or about a boyfriend!
3. Many askers want homework done for them: we give guidance, NOT solutions.
4. Many askers ask for ';too much for free';, like ';Gimme a script to set-up an e-commerce';: I do that for a living, and charge 1500-3000$, not for free.
5. Very specialized questions are often answered by qualified people, IF and only if the answer does not require a complete re-write, in which case, only a guidance is given.
6. Specialized questions, on special subjects, require, not only experience, but real expertise, and answer can demand some serious work: this is not free!
7. There are a huge number of ';answerers'; who, actually, have no (or very basic) knowledge and want to give an answer ';at all costs';. Remember: ';Little knowledge is dangerous';.
8. Many answerers are not qualifed to answer, but respond with clich茅s and pre-concieved ideas (an other danger).
9. Finally, a specialized question that is precise may not be in the realm or expertise of the few good answerers. If you ask me how to write a site for mobile phones, I have no idea (because I hate mobile phones: ';Browsing on a mobile? You must be mad!';)!
10. And if you ask how to use a WYSIWYG editor, I won't answer either, because you will never be a programmer, for the web or otherwise.
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I rarely ask a technical question, but I do. Since I am not a beginner, my questions are usually complex and, somehow, I never get any answer: specialised questions should be posted to specialized forums, NOT on Y!A...
Programming experience? 42 years worth. 45 if you count college. But my time is limited and I'm not an expert on all languages. I focus on C and C++, with some VB and Javascript thrown in. Occasionally, something in Java is close enough to C/C++ for me to take a stab at it.
But I don't have time to load a hunk of code into Visual C++, work to get it to compile -- or nearly so -- and hope the errors I'm seeing are the ones the Asker saw but failed to provide. If I can't see something obvious in the description or Additional details, I move on to another question.
And I absolutely won't do anyone's homework for them.
Hope that helps.
By the way, notice all the Top Contributors answering this.
If you have a serious programming question, go to a real programming forum on the Internet. If you want PHP help, then go to the Developer Shed forums; if you want CSS/HTML/JavaScript help, go to the SitePoint forums, etc.
goto www.codeproject.com and www.programmersheaven.com
I try. I graduated as the top Java student in my college this year.
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