Out of curiosity. I'm a current CS Major and I really hate having to google something I don't know, sift through search results, and scroll through pages and websites and documentation until I find that one thing I'm looking for. so I'm wondering exactly how often I'll probably have to do it.

Did you have to a lot during the first couple months of your job and now it's only on a rare occasion? Or is it more of a daily thing no matter how long you've worked? Or somewhere in between?

Is it normal to hate constantly having to find stuff? Do you? Does it get "better" / "easier"? Is this probably a deal breaker and I should change my major?

Almost every day.

In some jobs you do the same thing every day. But often you have to keep up with the market and are constantly learning something new.

I've been learning titanium appcelerator for the past year. I don't really just sit in a class for a few months to learn it and i'm suddenly an expert. I learn enough to get going, then google when im not sure what to do. appcelerator uses another framework BackboneJS, and just today i was googling how to alias a column in BackboneJS. I didn't find an answer, but i found a workaround instead by extending the get function and running it through a map with my aliases. i might run into problems with this later and i'll be back to googling.

im not a css expert either, so whenever i need to use it i go straight to google. same with javascript. and many other things.

if you hate googling to learn stuff, you might not wanna be a programmer. there are still many other jobs you can do with a CS degree.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Jan 5 2015 05:14pm

I use MATLAB 7 days a week to program, and i look stuff up around 5 times a day... so like 35 times a week

Because it is my first week, and because it is a new language, 200+

DON'T EVEN CARE

I google about that much a day. There is nothing wrong with googling for the answer. It is just a quicker "RTFM." You aren't expected to know everything instantly. You are expected to know how to find the answer quickly.

And it won't ever stop. You won't suddenly know everything and no longer need to google.

So, if googling for information is a problem for you then I suggest you find another field dude...

Yeah, I expect to always have a few dozen tabs open.

Aw man. I really don't want to find another field, lol. Everything else is even more tedious.



I had a feeling. :/ What other jobs do you speak of?

This is the fly in the ointment to me. I love everything about programming except that. Being given logical challenges and solving them is incredibly fun, and it's one of the few times I feel in the zone besides reading a damn good book. Development sounds especially fulfilling for that reason.

This is fun, i particularly enjoy writing new algorithms, where Google doesn't have an answer... I am going for my Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and I just do computer based models, and i find a new project fun for about 3 months, till i finish the computer part and have to start writing an analyzing

I have a CS degree and own a small online business. I'm the only person writing any type of code, so I'm frequently learning new programming methods for different aspects of my business. I'm constantly googling things because I'm always bouncing from project to project. My guess is 125 a week.