You suggest that it's important for junior tech professionals to try and answer their own questions with, e.g., Google. But I feel like every other month I see somebody talking about all the bad habits developed by people who trust W3Schools as a credible resource because they're highly ranked on Google.
The junior professionals who most frequently need to find quick answers for straightforward questions are the same people who are the least well-equipped to identify which answers are credible and appropriate. It's a paradox of finding trustworthy information without consulting the only sources you know to be trustworthy, and as someone new to the field myself, I lose sleep over this stuff.
Isn't that what the code review process would be for? Let a junior developer create a solution on their own, review their work and provide constructive feedback in a way that would eventually teach them that resources like W3Schools are not to be wholly trusted?
On the flip side of the coin, there are also terrible mentors and senior developers who will gladly pass on bad habits just like W3Schools will. Independant research is a good thing.
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You suggest that it's important for junior tech professionals to try and answer their own questions with, e.g., Google. But I feel like every other month I see somebody talking about all the bad habits developed by people who trust W3Schools as a credible resource because they're highly ranked on Google.
The junior professionals who most frequently need to find quick answers for straightforward questions are the same people who are the least well-equipped to identify which answers are credible and appropriate. It's a paradox of finding trustworthy information without consulting the only sources you know to be trustworthy, and as someone new to the field myself, I lose sleep over this stuff.
Isn't that what the code review process would be for? Let a junior developer create a solution on their own, review their work and provide constructive feedback in a way that would eventually teach them that resources like W3Schools are not to be wholly trusted?
On the flip side of the coin, there are also terrible mentors and senior developers who will gladly pass on bad habits just like W3Schools will. Independant research is a good thing.
I disagree. Juniors need the skills of looking things up on Google or they'll never develop them.