Ah... like you said, I'd always felt that programmers try to help each other, so I was surprised when I read that the OP thought that wasn't true.
I think I see what might've been going on now, though; I don't think it was because the question "What's CSS?" (or similar) is too dumb, and I especially don't think that it's because no one wanted to help you (or thought you're incompetent).
Rather, it's because when you're starting to program, you don't _know_ that you can Google the solutions to so many problems so easily, so you ask the people around you. It's perfectly sensible. So, one of the things that programmers try to teach other beginning programmers early is that Google makes a lot of information easy to access, and so they try to help you by telling you that you can Google before asking.
It's not that they don't want to answer, or that they feel you're hopeless -- they're just trying to teach you how to fish, instead of giving you a fish. :)
I'm sure if you ask the exact same question _after_ you have failed to find the answer after a 2-minute search on Google, you will not be turned down for the answer -- programmers generally love to help each other figure out how to do stuff. And one of these things they like teaching is that you can find answers to a lot of questions online!
I think I see what might've been going on now, though; I don't think it was because the question "What's CSS?" (or similar) is too dumb, and I especially don't think that it's because no one wanted to help you (or thought you're incompetent).
Rather, it's because when you're starting to program, you don't _know_ that you can Google the solutions to so many problems so easily, so you ask the people around you. It's perfectly sensible. So, one of the things that programmers try to teach other beginning programmers early is that Google makes a lot of information easy to access, and so they try to help you by telling you that you can Google before asking.
It's not that they don't want to answer, or that they feel you're hopeless -- they're just trying to teach you how to fish, instead of giving you a fish. :) I'm sure if you ask the exact same question _after_ you have failed to find the answer after a 2-minute search on Google, you will not be turned down for the answer -- programmers generally love to help each other figure out how to do stuff. And one of these things they like teaching is that you can find answers to a lot of questions online!