"Googling it" is okay! - Hear Me Out

Yes, I am aware that some individuals find it offensive that their years of meticulous memorization and/or magnificent piles of programming books are beginning to fade in favor of a resource that anybody can use in a matter of seconds, but you shouldn't hold it against those who utilize it.

I hear people searching online for solutions to issues far too frequently, and it makes no sense at all.

First and foremost, it must be acknowledged that everyone requires sources for their references. You will need to conduct some research because you don't know everything. Given that, is the source of the information really important? Does it matter if you learned it from a talking frog that you imagined or whether you researched it in a book, on Google, or both? No.

A correct response is a correct response. What matters is that you comprehend the subject matter, and utilize it to achieve a good programming solution, and the client/your company is satisfied with the outcomes.

Let me create a scenario here, a friend of mine came to me one day saying "I feel stupid having to Google my program together, should I be trying to build my knowledge up and test myself? Should I just rely on Google?".

This was my reply, Yes, this is completely normal. Coding is a highly detailed, highly knowledge-based skill. There are plenty of languages, and each language has its own set of libraries (which have thousands of APIs). On top of this, more complex software is usually most efficiently built using existing tools (e.g. using an ML library with built-in tools rather than building from scratch), which adds yet another layer of things to learn.

All of that's to say, yes, googling all the time is normal. I've been a dev for 2 years now and I still google all of the time/use our company's internal knowledge source.

So googling during coding is actually a skill you should learn also in your development phase .

I hope this post inspire someone

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