# Recommend me some good message boards for programmers and software enginners

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 5, 2006, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-good-message-boards-for-programmers-and-software-enginners/382918 "2006-12-05T08:10:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aquafina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@Aquafina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquafina)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-good-message-boards-for-programmers-and-software-enginners/382918/1 "2006-12-05T08:10:04Z")

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I am looking for such places. Anyone, please ?

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**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-good-message-boards-for-programmers-and-software-enginners/382918/2 "2006-12-05T08:58:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Aquafina]  
I am looking for such places. Anyone, please ?  
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[The Code Project](http://www.codeproject.com/) is rather good.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-good-message-boards-for-programmers-and-software-enginners/382918/3 "2006-12-05T08:59:17Z")

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[experts-exchange.com](http://experts-exchange.com) is quite good for dealing with specific thorny issues, but questions are points-based, so you have to either save up points (you get given 5 a day), or buy them.

But it would help if you were to specify what language(s) and platform(s) you’re likely to be developing for.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-good-message-boards-for-programmers-and-software-enginners/382918/4 "2006-12-05T12:31:22Z")

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Asking for opinions is better suited to IMHO. Moved.

**samclem** GQ moderator

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**Author:** ![Aquafina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@Aquafina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquafina)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-good-message-boards-for-programmers-and-software-enginners/382918/5 "2006-12-05T15:40:11Z")

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]  
[experts-exchange.com](http://experts-exchange.com) is quite good for dealing with specific thorny issues, but questions are points-based, so you have to either save up points (you get given 5 a day), or buy them.

But it would help if you were to specify what language(s) and platform(s) you’re likely to be developing for.  
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I am aware of experts-exchange but they require subscription. I am not very fond of that very much. And the place has so many ads.

I am working mostly with C++, Java.

Thanks