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by hv42 2519 days ago
> Going to the reference guides to learn an API is like reading a dictionary to learn English. There's not a lot of context.

Exactly! Examples are usually the most useful thing in the documentation.

Based on my experience, people go first to the examples and then read the description.

I guess that's also why stackoverflow is working so well as it is basically a large library of examples.