This essay doesn't make its point well. There's no lesson in there about how knowing the fundamentals is helpful. Here's how I would say it: - You can only ge

This essay doesn't make its point well. There's no lesson in there about how knowing the fundamentals is helpful. Here's how I would say it: - You can only get so far with Googling. You can find an awful lot of solutions to little problems, that's for sure. But you need to understand how to integrate whatever you find, and that's not always trivial. - There's no level at which Google isn't a necessary tool for coding. Top programmers will Google stuff, just like a top author might open a dictionary. - The CS fundamentals, basically DS&A, sometimes surface in order to bite you, and if you haven't come across them, they will do so silently. You can't google it if you don't know what Big-O is. - The engineering fundamentals (perhaps loose coupling? perhaps requirement scoping?) will certainly bite you, and they are also not something you can google. - When you're interviewing, you can test for simple things that can be googled. You can chat about the other things without being able to test them.