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10/19/24, 8:25 PM Coding Without Stack Overflow: Can It Be Done? | by Gabe Araujo, M.Sc.

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Coding Without Stack Overflow:


Can It Be Done?
When the safety net of the internet’s best Q&A site is out of reach.

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Published in Level Up Coding · 4 min read · 4 days ago

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So, I thought, what would happen if I tried to code without the almighty
Stack Overflow? You know, for fun — like deciding to write your own
JavaScript library for sorting arrays, or manually counting the elements in an
array instead of using .length . The kind of "fun" that makes you question
every life decision leading up to this moment. But I was determined. I was
going to tackle programming without the internet’s favorite crutch.

And what did I learn? Let’s just say, the journey was eye-opening. And full of
bugs.

Step 1: Diving into Documentation


Without Stack Overflow at my fingertips, my first instinct was to rely on
documentation. For example, when trying to remember how to use
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JavaScript’s map() function, I found myself sifting through the MDN Web
Docs page like a detective solving a cold case.

Here’s the basic code snippet for map() , if you're interested:

const numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];


const doubled = numbers.map(num => num * 2);

console.log(doubled);
// Output: [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]

This example seems harmless, but without Stack Overflow, I had to mentally
brace myself…

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