> They usually cannot write code from scratch True > I do think Google has caused some of this. I think it a lot of it is the frameworks and people constantl

> They usually cannot write code from scratch True > I do think Google has caused some of this. I think it a lot of it is the frameworks and people constantly trying to shortcut the method of building something with code. We have so many frameworks, tools, plugins and other stuff that it makes it easier NOT to learn anything deeply any more. Pick a JS Framework and I'll give you a dozen plugins or tools that have already been built to write your code for you. All you, as a developer have to do is string them together. By building all of these shortcuts, no one really needs to learn Angular, you have their site as a reference and tons of material to help you. Developers actually learn in the absence of knowledge where they have to sit down and learn it without knowing there is a crutch or fallback if they get stuck. I think today's developers just get as far as they can and then start googling for a solution because they know that someone has already built a date picker in ten different languages, thousands times already. Why go back and reinvent the wheel when you don't have to? Because it creates lazy developers. An entirely other issue is why learn some framework inside and out if its going to be obsolete in a few years? Remember when everybody loved Backbone and Express? You tell someone in the Dev community today you use either of those and you'll get laughed right out of the bar. I think its just a lot of things that work against developers learning more than then they really need in any given situation.