Ask HN: How do you search for relevant code examples?

[orange-apricot]

Hi everyone! We’re a group of undergrad CS students running a user study on software development habits for our capstone project (platform for retrieving similar GitHub repos). We’d really appreciate you taking a few minutes to fill this out!

$10 Amazon gift cards will be given to the top three most useful/best answers.

https://forms.gle/74EupDXR1kZA4Cj89

[WalterGR]

I added a custom search engine to each of my browsers, with the keyword "se". I can type the following to search across all Stack Exchange sites:

  se console.print

This is the URL for the custom search engine:

  https://www.google.com/search?q=%22stack+exchange%22+%s

While Stack Exchange hosts non-programming-related sites, my programming-related search queries almost never show non-relevant results - or at least, no non-relevant results that rank well. This way I don't have to search across Stack Exchange, Super User, Ask Different, etc.

[spatx]

Stackoverflow, Github and plain old Google search. One thing I like about Stackoverflow, Github gists and issues is the discussion around the code/problem/topic. With Github, I also get a chance to see how others solved the same problem in real-world projects, in possibly different ways, and in interesting projects I would not have come across otherwise.

[irerenu]

Done, sounds like an interesting project! Would be interested in the survey results

[mmob]

It's almost always Stackoverflow that ends up giving me the answer!