Part two:
There are some exceptions you might see in the spoken language. If a statement is written with a question mark, it's not really a question as much as a surprised inference and the question mark just indicates the rising intonation at the end of the sentence. For example, if someone implies that it's dark outside and I thought it was light, I might say "It's dark outside?". I'm not actually asking if it's dark outside, I'm just indicating my surprise. Someone might confirm my inference with "yeah", especially if I sound uncertain, but that's not really necessary.
"Are you..." is often omitted before questions in the present continuous. Ex. "Are you using a computer?" might be abbreviated to "You using a computer?" or "Using a computer?". This is really slang-ish and not proper, but it's very common.
By the way, never start a question with "how to" or "what to". You could say "I don't know how to do that." or "I need to know what to do.", but you can't just say "How to do that?" or "What to do?". In novels you might see people use this form when they're thinking in self-contemplation, but this sounds very old-fashioned and something you'd only expect to find in a book, and it was never used to ask someone else a question in the first place. You might also see something like "How to ask any question in English" as the title of an article, but it is neither a full sentence nor a question. I would expect that article to explain how to ask questions in English rather than ask about it. The title of this page should be "How do you ask any question in English?"