Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:45 am
I'll also throw in my 2c. Try to assume good faith - very few people are deliberately nasty. Acki comes over a bit hostile at times, rogerborg's wit is sharp enough to cause serious injury, and zeno likes to flame.. but if you can get past that there are always nuggets of wisdom in there.
What they really mean is, when you get an error message like "cannot instantiate abstract class due to following members...", you need to read up on stuff until you understand the error message.
So for starters you need to know what instantiate means, and what an abstract class is. Once you know that, it should be obvious. If it isn't, you need to google some more until it is obvious. If you're still stuck and have to post a question, put some effort into it. Write about what you've tried, where you've searched, and ask for a direction not a solution. If you do this nobody can ever accuse you of being lazy or unwilling to learn by yourself.
What they really mean is, when you get an error message like "cannot instantiate abstract class due to following members...", you need to read up on stuff until you understand the error message.
So for starters you need to know what instantiate means, and what an abstract class is. Once you know that, it should be obvious. If it isn't, you need to google some more until it is obvious. If you're still stuck and have to post a question, put some effort into it. Write about what you've tried, where you've searched, and ask for a direction not a solution. If you do this nobody can ever accuse you of being lazy or unwilling to learn by yourself.