# TIP: How to Ask a Question

DevFeed: [TIP: How to Ask a Question](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tip-how-to-ask-a-question-19582.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/tip-how-to-ask-a-question/>)

Author: Shai Almog

Published: 2016-11-20T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [CodeName One](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codename-one.md>)

Topics: [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Stack Overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stackoverflow.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ide.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ide.md>), [screenshot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/screenshot.md>), [source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/source.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to ask technical questions more effectively. It recommends briefly stating the goal, describing what was tried, and including relevant screenshots, code snippets, error logs, and source URLs.

## Source excerpt

I deal with a lot of questions every day and unfortunately most of them are phrased in a way that forces me to guess. There are some guidelines on how to ask a question but I think they are mostly pretty bad. Asking a question "correctly" helps you tremendously both in getting a correct answer faster and also in solving your own question. Following these three rules will significantly improve your questions: