KUALA LUMPUR (July 26): What’s in a question? Quite a lot, as it turns out.

In fact, the simple act of asking questions sits at the very heart of Stack Overflow. It’s the world’s most popular question-and-answer platform for all-things programming. Simply ask a programming-related question and someone is bound to provide you with an answer.

Fair warning however: Stack Overflow is a community that’s evolved over a period of years, decades even, and there are some deceptively challenging best practices that new users need to be mindful of. 

By and large, it boils down to this: Ask good questions.

Jon Skeet has gained a reputation for providing more than 35,000 answers on the platform. According to Stack Overflow analytics, Skeet’s prolific activity on the platform is estimated to have reached well over 300 million users over the years. A veteran engineer at Google, Skeet is the world’s highest rated user on Stack Overflow.

At the time of writing, his profile has racked up nearly 1.3 million points, putting him in the top 0.01% of users on Stack Overflow. He broke the million-point mark in January 2018. From coding his first game at age 7, to now being regarded as part-meme icon and part-programming sage, Digital Edge speaks exclusively to Skeet. 

Read more about it in The Edge Malaysia weekly’s July 26 edition.

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