The best programmers are the quickest to Google

Knowledge can help develop intuition, to know which pieces connect to each other. For example, in a programming competition you could google various algorithms to determine solutions. But Google won't tell you "which" algorithms to look for, or give you the intuition you need to piece the correct solution together.

A good analogy is chess. Before computers could beat humans, it was a pure game of human mind vs. human mind.

Then the computer was able to dominate humans.

And now, we're discovering that a human paired with a computer, can beat either alone. But that human still needs to have the intuition, experience, and knowledge to know how to work with the computer.

When I was a kid, and when I first heard about open book exams I was amazed. Well if they allow you to carry your textbook to the exam hall you should ace through the exam through flying colors, right?

Not quite, later when I studied the question paper I realized it was so framed, that the test was not to copy the facts from the textbook and answer as such. But the questions were basically problems and you will be forced to look up the text book as a reference with your own problem solving ability being the core test being tested here. In such cases it makes far more sense, to simply allow the person to carry the textbook to the exam hall.

Its easy to get access to a textbook/google/documentation/manual/whatever. And spending your effort to remember facts is a waste of time and energy which are often in short supply. Now extending this same philosophy, what if the solution patterns to large number of problems is readily available?

In such a case it makes more sense to focus on a) Quantity of problems one can solve b) Quality of problems one can solve. Instead of learning the solutions to the problems, use the solutions to do something big, or use the solutions to do a lot of things.

If you are wondering why the CS illiterate guy next to you is as equally productive as you who has read some thousands of pages of CS literature, its because when solutions are available easily and for cheap- Putting everything in your brain is a pointless exercise.

What matters is getting things done.

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...thought that might help

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