How to Find

the Answers you Need

Example Search

Learning Objectives

  • Recall a variety of searching techniques

  • Decide when to use different techniques

  • Apply search techniques to find solutions to technical problems

  • Interpret technical documents.

Resource Takeaway

  • Produce a cheatsheet to use when you are seeking answers throughout the program

No Unecessary Words

Google doesn't care about your grammar.

Search: How do I make tea?

Search: make tea

 

Quotation Marks

Make Google match your search term precisely.

Search: dog pistachio dress owl

Search: "dog pistachio" dress owl

Search: dog "pistachio dress" owl

 

 

Limit Time Frame

Look for recent results, or a specific range of time.

Search: Superbowl

Set timeframe from 1/1999 to 1/2000

 

 

 

Narrow Your Search

Use keywords to let Google know your context.

Search: what is an array

Search: js what is an array

 

 

 

 

Symbols

Be specific about what you want from each word

Search: javascript

Search: #javascript

 

 

 

 

 

Range Search

Search: television

Search: television 30..50 inches

Give Google a range to limit your search

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specific Sites

Limit your search to just one site.

site:stackoverflow.com object literal

Search: object literal

Quotation Marks

No Unnecessary Words

Limit Time Frame

Narrow Your Search

Symbols

Range Search

Specific Sites

Now go find...

 

How to update an element's styles with jQuery.

 

How to set up a CSS breakpoint for 800px wide screens.

 

What is AfterContentChecked in Angular 2?

Documentation

  • You can't always count on good documentation.

  • You can't always count on complete documentation.

  • You can't always count on knowing all the terms in documentation.

Documentation is the source of truth.

However

CLI Documentation

$ man

$ git --help

Use what you know to find the cli help docs for Node.

Learning Objectives

Recall a variety of searching techniques

Decide when to use different techniques

Apply search techniques to find solutions to technical problems.

Interpret technical documents.

Further Practice

How to Find Answers

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How to Find Answers

Coding comes with a lot of lingo, syntax, vocab, and bugs. Being able to hunt down answers to a plethora of questions is a skill every developer needs.

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