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I'd say it's also worth mentioning that after knowing what to google is knowing how to apply what you've found. Most of the time an answer on stackoverflow isn'
by 49531 10y ago
I'd say it's also worth mentioning that after knowing what to google is knowing how to apply what you've found. Most of the time an answer on stackoverflow isn't something you can copypaste and have work sans unintended consequences.
- rhizome 10y agoDo people really ever check in unmodified pastes that don't work?
- CydeWeys 10y agoI've seen this while conducting phone screens. Obviously, it didn't work out for them. But I don't blame them for trying; they were already completely flubbing the interview anyway, so why not go for a hail mary?
- grogenaut 10y agoI've sent my brother (non-programmer) many code snippets and google results to help him learn python. They don't help because the problems he's trying to solve are about 8 levels of programming knowledge above what his current knowledge level is (trying to understand a for loop). Conversely he asked me to automate some java application workflow for him and even though I haven't done swing in 8 years it was trivial for me to do. It might have taken him months even with googling.
- CydeWeys 10y agoTotally. I've been programming for twenty years now. The way I learn a new language/framework/API is by Googling for examples. I've found it to be the fastest way to pick up something new, to the point where I stop reading the official documentation if it isn't heavy on code samples and go search for something someone else has written that is. You can pick up so much about a new tool so quickly simply by applying an existing broad knowledge base of programming information to a few examples.