<h2class="episodetitle">Community Search and Participation</h2>
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<h2class="sectiontitle">Finding Your People</h2>
<p>When it comes to searching and finding solutions to coding problems online, sometimes it's not a case of knowing where to look but knowing who to ask. This might mean which specific person to ask but will more often mean which online communities to post your questions in. Let's look at a real world example of that and suppose that we are interested in <ahref="https://svelte.dev/">Svelte</a>. Actually, I hadn't heard of Svelte before but it seems to be a lightweight JavaScript framework and it does look interesting. Ray Villabolos has a course on LinkedIn called <ahref="https://www.linkedin.com/learning/svelte-first-look">Svelte: First Look</a> which was published in December 2019.</p>
<p>A very simple answer to the question, where do I find my people might be given as close to the source and while that may be too much of a simple answer, it is nevertheless a goo place to start. From the Svelte website, we will look for the official documentation. We can get to this from the home by clicking <ahref="https://svelte.dev/docs">Docs</a> at the top of the page.</p>
<p>There may be a temptation to head straight for the docs to learn about Svelte, but it would probably be better to start with the forums. The Svelte home page has links in the top right corner (next to the link to SvelteKit) to the forums and also to the GitHub repositories for Svelte. Additional links that are prominent on the home page include a link to the Svelte tutorial which is similar to codepen.io which is an oline editor that allows you to experiment with CSS. The tutorial here looks as though it is doing the same thing but with Svelte. There are also links to Examples, the Svelte Blog and a FAQ.</p>
<p>Remember that it is important to participate in the Community both actively and passively and it is probably a good idea to follow some of the leaders and prominent actors in the community.</p>
<p>It can also be worthwhile to check for events, online or offline, relating to your chosen technology and perhaps checking for videos of past events online because these can provide interesting approaches to the technology that you hadn't thought or perhaps just enhance your experience of the technology.</p>
<h2class="sectiontitle">Ask Questions and Start Conversations</h2>
<p>People can sometimes be reulctant to answer questions and one of the consquences of this is that if you do ask a question, there may be other people who want to know the answer but didn't ask. Asking a question, may elicit an answer advising you to read the docs or pointing you towards somewhere where the question has already been asked and answered.</p>
