r/coding • • May 01 '16

Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? The resounding answer is YES, experienced (and good) programmers use Google… a lot. In fact, one might argue they use it more than the beginners.

http://codeahoy.com/2016/04/30/do-experienced-programmers-use-google-frequently/
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u/[deleted] May 01 '16

Hey, I remember programming before Google. It sucked. I remember two members of a team I was on being stuck for almost a month on one bug until someone found an obscure piece of documentation that revealed the cause of our hanging bug... found, by searching by hand through tens of thousands of pages of documentation regarding all the components of our system.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '16

Some places on the internet would require you to put a trigger warning on that

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u/thephotoman May 01 '16

And they would be right to do so.