Questions tagged [code]
The code tag has no usage guidance.
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Is it necessary to add a minimal code to question when self-answering?
Besides being beneficial to people, it is also useful for future me to add here my problem I encountered and its solution (not existing in GIS SE) as a question and answer. I frequently find myself ...
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Code blocks are hard to distinguish from normal text
Especially when syntax highlighting is off (e.g. because of the lack of proper tags like here), code blocks are hard to distinguish from normal text, because the default background is already grayish:
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Is a Pythonic MCVE acceptable for this top voted accepted GIS SE answer?
I am in the process of writing my question requesting a clarification of this top voted accepted GIS SE answer - Using Geohash for proximity searches and I have a pythonic attempt as an MCVE. Is that ...
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Questions closed for "a specific problem/error and code to reproduce it" when the question is not about an error
Recently, I have seen several questions closed for the close reason
"When seeking help to debug/write/improve code always provide the desired behavior, a specific problem/error and the shortest ...
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Modifying custom close reason for when pictures of code rather than formatted text are presented?
Last time we tweaked the custom close reason below was at Tweaking custom close reason for poorly framed code debugging/writing/improving questions?
Questions seeking help to debug/write/improve ...
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When is it appropriate to tag Python or Arcpy?
This metapost discusses the use of python tags for Shapely libraries and the top-voted answer suggests that removing the python tags
limits the potential audience as those who favourite the python tag ...
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Replacing MCVE with Code Snippet in custom close reason?
We currently have a custom close reason of:
Questions seeking help to debug/write/improve code must include the
desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the shortest
code necessary to ...
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Writing code snippets to get quicker answers
The term "code snippet" is often used when trying to help users frame their coding questions.
Other similar terms can be found in:
How to create a Minimal, Reproducible Example:
minimal, ...
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Asking code review questions for GIS related code?
I know Stack Exchange has a Code Review site, but asking questions about GIS focused topics there appears to have the same problems as asking GIS focused/related questions on Stack Overflow. The ...
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Tweaking custom close reason for poorly framed code debugging/writing/improving questions?
In Shortest code to reproduce GIS programming problems I think we made good progress on getting a more useful set of custom close reasons for GIS SE.
However, I think the current wording of our ...
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Can we get Stack Snippets enabled?
Just saw that StackOverflow and a few other sites have gotten a new runnable code snippets feature.
As far as I can tell it is not enabled for this site -- the toolbar button to access it does not ...
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Guiding authors of code related questions to post actual code?
I've noticed that in code related questions on GIS SE, particularly OpenLayers / Leaflet / JavaScript ones, that new people are not posting up any code examples.
The example that prompted this ...
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Generic GIS code repository? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could we have a 'Code library'?
Would it be possible to develop a section of the site to act as a simple code repository? For instance, many articles associated with ...
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How much code is appropriate for an answer?
I think a lot of gis.SE visitors are looking for code. Sometimes a small snippet of code is sufficient to answer a question, but other times it can become lengthy. Also, at some point it becomes ...
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Sharing ArcObjects/ArcGIS snippets?
Can we make an attempt to share snippets here directly which we think can be used regularly?
For example, adding shapefile programmatically, or buffer etc.
sameer