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You of course don't want to go to SO for the "skill" of programming, you probably already know to do that as that is your craft. You go to SO for domain knowledge that you don't want to spend time scouring documentation for.

SO is a unique combination of framework docs and practical examples. Inevitably you'll find sample usages of the framework or domain knowledge, applied to a problem similar to the one you have and can apply easily using the "skill" or craft of programming.

Other than that, it's pretty much CRUD and algorithms that a developer has to do. And the latter of those is sadly not needed for most development work out there.




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