How to treat debugging and easy-to-google and very basic questions?

[klutt]

I just saw a pretty good example on SO that got deleted.

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
   int i = 1;
   for (i = 0; i = -1; i = 1) {
       printf("%d ", i);
       if (i != 1)
           break;
   }
   return 0;
}

output of this code is -1. Can someone explain to me how?

This is a perfect example of a question where the best (imo) thing to do is to just link to a page that describes in detail how a for loop works.

@cellio

For sites that want to try to help people with this kind of problem (not something to assume, but some are more interested in this than others), a “tutoring” or “mentoring” category could be used to separate this kind of content from other Q&A. (Questions might come in in the wrong place, but if we make it easy to move things to other categories, that’s not a big problem for most communities.)

I think this can be a bit dangerous. If not handled in a good way, that tag can be used as an excuse for bad questions.