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The Unaswered Question

I see this question all the time:

   I wrote a program. It didn't work. What did I do wrong?

   Please help!!! I've been working on this for three days

   and I need to get this finished in the next hour.

I'm paraphrasing for emphasis--These questions often contain a lot more content, but what they don't contain is any useful information. It should go without saying, but these questions seldom get a timely (and useful) response.

The best way to get a helpful response is to consider your question from the perspective of the person you want to answer it. People who answer questions on these forums like to be helpful, but no one likes their time to be wasted. Even the most kindly soul is going to think twice about answering your question if it involves a long painful process of information extraction. The golden rule is this: Don't expect any more effort to go in the answer than you put in the question. For tips on asking thoughtful questions, I strongly recommend this website: http://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html.

If you need help with homework, I have a few more suggestions. Firstly, be upfront with the fact that you are asking for help on your homework. It's usually pretty obvious anyway. Secondly, don't expect to have your homework done for you. At most schools that's known as cheating. Lastly, demonstrate with your questions that you have attempted to solve the problem on your own. That usually involves specific questions about why code you have written is not working properly.