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Struggle or Google?

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Todd
·Feb 17, 2017

Struggle

15%

Google

85%

178 votes · Closed

I want your opinions on what's more educational in the long run for someone's development as a programmer. Is it more educational to spend 5 hours on a problem and figure it out yourself or spend 10 minutes on it with the help of searching for a solution to a problem? Give us your reasoning.

Keep in mind, the constraints here are: Better for the personal development of the programmer, not finishing the project or meeting any deadlines.

I'll give 2 initial reasonings that I've thought of:

In support of struggling - helps to develop problem solving skills and iron out deficiencies and weaknesses.

In support of searching - Could open up a new way to facing a problem that you have not thought of which could put a new tool in your box for the future.