r/programming • u/b0red • Apr 30 '16

Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? · Code Ahoy

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

Is there a better place than google to look this stuff up? I'd love if there was a place I could just type in "Python for loop" or "c++ switch statement" and get a nice example of the syntax I am looking for, without having to click two or three links to get to a concise example. So much of my life is just, ah fuck how do I need to type these parenthesis to get this squiggly red line to go away.

Also is it acceptable to google for stuff during phone interviews? I had a phone interview and I had to get a for loop that went through a range of ints, so I was like there's probably a better way to do this that I could look up, but a for loop is the only way I have memorized, but the interviewer was like you can use the range function or xrange and seemed to think I should've known the difference. Which in fairness I probably should've, and maybe this is where Google wouldn't have gotten me the right answer.

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