What google and stack overflow makes you bad coder?

in question •  7 years ago 

Every week, my boss checks the number of Google searches and Stack Overflow posts I had to go through to finish my assigned tasks. The fewer searches I do, the better my evaluation.

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Said no-one, ever. My boss cares about which
features I finish, the speed of work and the quality of my code. Google and SO are amazing resources. Why on earth would I not use them?

That being said, I would like to add that using SO does not mean blindly copy-pasting answers. Try to understand the answers provided, and how and why they fit (or don’t fit) into your solution. If you are a student, you will learn a lot more by struggling on a particular problem for a while by yourself before looking at the solution on SO. Read source code and documentation so you have a more versatile toolkit to solve the next problem.

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SO has helped me on so many occasions as a code newbie - I do see the potential for abuse but as long as you are making an effort to learn that's what matters the most - great post!

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