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I like a point "Ask about specific problems with your existing implementation. If you can't do that yet, try some more of your own work first or searching for more general help." from the StackOverflow discussion. I believe that what we're doing now is more like (in StackOverflow terms) "writing code (= solution) for the asker".

Probably an equivalent for StackOverflow policy would be answering questions about problems with solutions of homework problem (something like "I did such-and-such but resulting answer is clearly wrong even for n=1. Where is my mistake?") but question just asking for the solution of some standard homework problems (like, say, "Can anyone show the set of polynomials of degree 2 does not behave as a vector space?") should, I believe, be immediately closed.

I like a point "Ask about specific problems with your existing implementation. If you can't do that yet, try some more of your own work first or searching for more general help." from the StackOverflow discussion. I believe that what we're doing now is more like (in StackOverflow terms) "writing code (= solution) for the asker".

Probably an equivalent for StackOverflow policy would be answering questions about problems with solutions of homework problem (something like "I did such-and-such but resulting answer is clearly wrong even for n=1. Where is my mistake?") but question just asking for the solution of some standard homework problems (like, say, "Can anyone show the set of polynomials of degree 2 does not behave as a vector space?") should, I believe, be immediately closed.

I like a point "Ask about specific problems with your existing implementation. If you can't do that yet, try some more of your own work first or searching for more general help." from the StackOverflow discussion. I believe that what we're doing now is more like (in StackOverflow terms) "writing code (= solution) for the asker".

Probably an equivalent for StackOverflow policy would be answering questions about problems with solutions of homework problem (something like "I did such-and-such but resulting answer is clearly wrong even for n=1. Where is my mistake?") but question just asking for the solution of some standard homework problems (like, say, "Can anyone show the set of polynomials of degree 2 does not behave as a vector space?") should, I believe, be immediately closed.

I like a point "Ask about specific problems with your existing implementation. If you can't do that yet, try some more of your own work first or searching for more general help." from the StackOverflow discussion. I believe that what we're doing now is more like (in StackOverflow terms) "writing code (= solution) for the asker".

Probably an equivalent for StackOverflow policy would be answering questions about problems with solutions of homework problem (something like "I did such-and-such but resulting answer is clearly wrong even for n=1. Where is my mistake?") but question just asking for the solution of some standard homework problems (like, say, "Can anyone show the set of polynomials of degree 2 does not behave as a vector space?") should, I believe, be immediately closed.

I like a point "Ask about specific problems with your existing implementation. If you can't do that yet, try some more of your own work first or searching for more general help." from the StackOverflow discussion. I believe that what we're doing now is more like (in StackOverflow terms) "writing code (= solution) for the asker".

Probably an equivalent for StackOverflow policy would be answering questions about problems with solutions of homework problem (something like "I did such-and-such but resulting answer is clearly wrong even for n=1. Where is my mistake?") but question just asking for the solution of some standard homework problems (like, say, "Can anyone show the set of polynomials of degree 2 does not behave as a vector space?") should, I believe, be immediately closed.

I like a point "Ask about specific problems with your existing implementation. If you can't do that yet, try some more of your own work first or searching for more general help." from the StackOverflow discussion. I believe that what we're doing now is more like (in StackOverflow terms) "writing code (= solution) for the asker".

Probably an equivalent for StackOverflow policy would be answering questions about problems with solutions of homework problem (something like "I did such-and-such but resulting answer is clearly wrong even for n=1. Where is my mistake?") but question just asking for the solution of some standard homework problems (like, say, "Can anyone show the set of polynomials of degree 2 does not behave as a vector space?") should, I believe, be immediately closed.