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Where to find answers

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- In an era where it is increasingly more normal to work by yourself from home, it can be hard to get the help you need when you are stuck on a project or technical issue since you aren't surrounded by all of your colleagues as you may have been used to. In this lesson, I will go over a few online resources that are helpful for when you are stuck, or don't know how to complete a task in GitHub. One of the best online resources for anything GitHub related is the official GitHub documentation that is posted at docs.github.com. This collection of articles from GitHub review how to do all of the relevant actions you should ever need to do as a data scientist using GitHub. If you ever simply don't know how to complete a task or use a piece of functionality from GitHub, these docs are a great first place to check for the answer. If you don't see the answers you're looking for on the official GitHub documentation, another great website to check out is Stack Overflow. As a data scientist, you have probably heard of or used this website before, as it is one of the most common community forums for people in the tech world to post questions and problems for others in the community to answer. Chances are if you're encountering issues with using GitHub or Git, someone else has run into this problem before. There will usually be questions and answers for most of the relevant problems you will face on Stack Overflow. So this is another good website to keep in mind for getting help. Your main takeaway from this lesson should be that everyone gets stuck, especially when learning a new technology or platform. If you are stuck or facing a problem, others have probably run into the same issues. So turning to the larger community of data scientists on the internet is always a great resource for you to find the help that you need.

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