>I’ll Google for the answer, but only read articles people wrote and posted on their own sites. Funny thing is there are a lot of sites that just republish the

>I’ll Google for the answer, but only read articles people wrote and posted on their own sites. Funny thing is there are a lot of sites that just republish the SO post. Also, there's the reverse where you find a really good blog post in an SO answer. >so you copy and paste code fragments from up and down the page, in a vain attempt to shut the problem down I almost never do this. I read the snippets to get the idea of why they would work which helps me understand the problem better. >Learning to read an API or manual will save you time. It's even better when the library/framework you're using is open source so you can just look at what the code is doing vs. what they say it's doing.