Over-reliance on Google and Q/A forums has its problems, but I think it may be better than spending 4 months poring over the documentation and other books, work

Over-reliance on Google and Q/A forums has its problems, but I think it may be better than spending 4 months poring over the documentation and other books, working through everyone you know in your social circle who might know C better than you do, vainly trying to get responses on usenet, and then finally giving up and realizing you may never know why your program segfaults (me circa 1995). Besides, unassisted trouble coding isn't exactly rare or new: “I’ve assigned this problem [binary search] in courses at Bell Labs and IBM. Professional programmers had a couple of hours to convert the description into a programming language of their choice; a high-level pseudo code was fine... Ninety percent of the programmers found bugs in their programs (and I wasn’t always convinced of the correctness of the code in which no bugs were found).” - Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls, 1986