Full Disclosure: I am ancient, not all that wise, but have stuck with things since 1989.
The first time it's research, the second time it's engineering.
Taken from one perspective, the interwebs offers great resources where you can get up to speed, rapidly. In theory, no need for failure, struggle and head banging as you can glean important details from other's experience on Stack Overflow, review good code on GitHub, read blogs, etc. How useful this is still depends on the level challenge you are facing, and how diligent you are at understanding the code you chose to implement. In other words: do you really know what that code is going to do that you just pasted?
Here is an alternative view, and comes from an interview that I recently had where I didn't get the job. In many respects I was interviewing the company as well, so the thing happened as I wasn't offered the position. The question I was asked was this: what sources do you use online?
I answered honestly, and said the first thing that came to mind: Well there's lot's of resources like Stack Overflow but to be honest there's a lot of noise out there. I try to sift through it all, but to be honest I tend to be skeptical.
I was one the first beta testors of Stack Overflow and followed Jeff's experiment as it blossomed into something amazing. I have a decent rating, but quite frankly I don't what it is, and am not impressed when people wear their badges. Skepticism and trying things for yourself and struggling is one of the best teachers. All those mistakes build a foundation.
In the end it's up the individual to go back and judge themselves, and yes, look to others for guidance.
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Full Disclosure: I am ancient, not all that wise, but have stuck with things since 1989.
The first time it's research, the second time it's engineering.
Taken from one perspective, the interwebs offers great resources where you can get up to speed, rapidly. In theory, no need for failure, struggle and head banging as you can glean important details from other's experience on Stack Overflow, review good code on GitHub, read blogs, etc. How useful this is still depends on the level challenge you are facing, and how diligent you are at understanding the code you chose to implement. In other words: do you really know what that code is going to do that you just pasted?
Here is an alternative view, and comes from an interview that I recently had where I didn't get the job. In many respects I was interviewing the company as well, so the thing happened as I wasn't offered the position. The question I was asked was this: what sources do you use online?
I answered honestly, and said the first thing that came to mind: Well there's lot's of resources like Stack Overflow but to be honest there's a lot of noise out there. I try to sift through it all, but to be honest I tend to be skeptical.
I was one the first beta testors of Stack Overflow and followed Jeff's experiment as it blossomed into something amazing. I have a decent rating, but quite frankly I don't what it is, and am not impressed when people wear their badges. Skepticism and trying things for yourself and struggling is one of the best teachers. All those mistakes build a foundation.
In the end it's up the individual to go back and judge themselves, and yes, look to others for guidance.