It depends on the content of the class. I had a class in Android programming in college where google was fair game because the API / libs were so large that goo

It depends on the content of the class. I had a class in Android programming in college where google was fair game because the API / libs were so large that google was a necessity to access all the documentation you need to write android apps. My low level systems class was closed-book, no google, etc. At some point you have to learn something. Pointer manipulation is not something you should have to look up every time you do it.