There are a lot of very good comments on this post. I think many can be summed up as you should learn what you use frequently but that it's okay to have a broad and shallow appreciation of many topics that you can google. Turning that around you should understand and gain expertise in the things you use every day.
My grandfather told me that you are not paying a teacher to make chalk marks on the blackboard. You are paying them for what they know and their skill in explaining it. Knowing what to google is a similar situation. One big difference between a programmer who is struggling to get started and one who can be thrown any task is knowing just enough to google.
A couple of decades ago you needed to read the right books. Until google and stackoverflow you needed to read the right websites and forums. More recently to get up to speed on some new tech you need to watch the right YouTube channels.
I would suggest if anyone finds themselves googling too often for something they should watch a few videos about it. I recommend using a player that lets you speed up the playback to as fast as you can comprehend then skip back and slow down anything you missed. Some techs will always require deep knowledge, for example cryptography, but mainstream technology competes for mindshare by being accessible. After a bit of video research you can google like a boss and with a bit of experience you can be highly proficient in most mainstream tech.
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There are a lot of very good comments on this post. I think many can be summed up as you should learn what you use frequently but that it's okay to have a broad and shallow appreciation of many topics that you can google. Turning that around you should understand and gain expertise in the things you use every day.
My grandfather told me that you are not paying a teacher to make chalk marks on the blackboard. You are paying them for what they know and their skill in explaining it. Knowing what to google is a similar situation. One big difference between a programmer who is struggling to get started and one who can be thrown any task is knowing just enough to google.
A couple of decades ago you needed to read the right books. Until google and stackoverflow you needed to read the right websites and forums. More recently to get up to speed on some new tech you need to watch the right YouTube channels.
I would suggest if anyone finds themselves googling too often for something they should watch a few videos about it. I recommend using a player that lets you speed up the playback to as fast as you can comprehend then skip back and slow down anything you missed. Some techs will always require deep knowledge, for example cryptography, but mainstream technology competes for mindshare by being accessible. After a bit of video research you can google like a boss and with a bit of experience you can be highly proficient in most mainstream tech.