How to use search skills to become an effective programmer
Jul 22nd, 2008 | People, Practices, Skills
No man is an island unto himself every man is a part of the whole – John Donne
It is possible to program a web page or small application with little knowledge of programming. Use Google to search for examples and if you are lucky, you will find ready code and your are almost done. Even experienced programmers often retreat to search to save time and effort for finding solutions for their problems.
Modern effective programming is unthinkable without using search, the Internet and collective intelligence. Therefore, search skills are becoming primary for an effective programmer.
Now we don’t need to know and remember how to solve many programming problems – we can use search. We are becoming more effective, productive and able to solve wider range of problems. But does it mean that good search skills are enough for building software? This post will review the role of search skills in forming programmer knowledge and how to use search effectively.