It's hard to argue much about this because nobody so far said what kind of problem we're trying to solve.

But I feel the first step should be going to the documentation of whatever language or library you're using, rather than Stack Overflow. SO will tell you the answer to a single question, the docs usually give some more information (you don't get "use this option", but "here are the options and this is what they do") so the chance is higher that next time, you'll just know the answer.

Of course when inexplicable things happen or when docs are bad, SO can be pure gold.