>I basically learned programming by ExpertSexchange, Google (and Altavista...), SourceForge and eventually StackOverflow + GitHub. Many people with more experie

>I basically learned programming by ExpertSexchange, Google (and Altavista...), SourceForge and eventually StackOverflow + GitHub. Many people with more experience than me at the time always told me I was making a deal with the devil since I searched so much, didn't read manuals and asked so many questions instead of thinking for myself. no they didn't, no one said that i know that because i was around then and everyone was doing the same thing also, maybe there's a difference between searching and collating answers and just copy and pasting a solution _without thinking_ at all