[crispyambulance]

SO is a great place to go when you're in a jam at work as a pro doing your stuff. It has specific answers to specific questions. Sure, if you have enough background expertise to navigate the answers, you can "learn something" (1) along the way.

The kinds of questions that people ask when they're focused on learning something new, however, are DEFINITELY NOT what SO is intended to handle. It is why SO is actively hostile to people that try to use it to learn by asking questions.

(1) For .net in particular, Jon Skeet's answers are magnificent resources. He even made the content from his answers into a book. The book, of course, has context and coherence. It's not just the answers copy-pasted into a text. Sadly, Skeet is the exception rather than the rule. For everyone putting up nice answers to questions following the example of Skeet, there are dozens of smug, persnickety jerks making people feel like shit in a hundred different ways for daring to ask a question.

[Xelbair]

>> The kinds of questions that people ask when they're focused on learning something new, however, are DEFINITELY NOT what SO is intended to handle. It is why SO is actively hostile to people that try to use it to learn by asking questions.

Exactly, at this phase of learning go and read other questions and answers related to your topic instead.

Jon Skeet is a goddamn national treasure.