Discussion on: When is learning what to Google good enough?

I think it's a great place to start with anything. If you need something frequently enough, you'll start to remember it.

So for example, I'm quite new to Elixir, and the backend at my job is written in it. I went through most of the getting started guide quite quickly, and then dove into the code base. The basics of defining modules and functions stuck quite quickly, but I still need to google for things like case and cond statements, and standard library functions.

I think where actively learning things by following tutorials works best is for unknown unknowns. You might not know that a particular type of solution is out there, so you don't know to Google for it.