How good of a programmer would you be without Google/Stack overflow? :D

[MasterOfMasks]

How good would you be without search engines and stack overflow/similar sites?

I've been coding a lot lately, and I can't believe how much I have learned and fixed with search engines and stack overflow lol.

If there were no search engines, and I had only the programming languages manuals, I wouldn't be able to make it lol.

What do you guys think?

 

[Deleted member 1283077]

Yeah no shot bro, I would be still stuck on my first calculator program or something haha.
It's amazing the resources we have these days, makes it so much more approachable.
Obviously should try understand the code rather than just copy paste, but we're all guilty of that sometimes haha

 

[thedorf]

Sure I agree I couldn't do half the stuff I do without search.

It seems everything I want to do someone has done something similar before me.

 

[MasterOfMasks]

Obviously should try understand the code rather than just copy paste

i dont copy/paste. i usually try to understand the solution then apply something similar to my code

 

[M4DM4X]

I should pay back some stackoverflow contributors as they allowed me to write cool scripts and bots to make money.
Superuser is another great ressource.

 

[MasterOfMasks]

I should pay back some stackoverflow contributors as they allowed me to write cool scripts and bots to make money.
Superuser is another great ressource.

yeah, all those "stack" sites are great resources.
me too. thanks to them i have made a ton.

 

[Pavilion]

In fact, I started programming from books, so I can say that yes, it would be more difficult, but on the other hand, I learned everything from a book written by an expert. My first programming experience was BASIC. Then I had to learn PHP since my work was related to websites. Of course, these sites make a huge contribution to the community and help newcomers, but their main problem is that the information can be outdated. Stascoverflow often update information if, for example, a new PHP version comes out. ha, that's a huge plus. Copying the code by the way is not the best practice, but for simple scripts it can be a good solution. Sincerely.