The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 25 minutes.
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1. Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently? by Umer Mansoor (10 min)
- Your key take-aways OR how you're going to implement specific points (minimum 2):
- here is what I thought...
2. 20 Google Search Tips to Use Google More Efficiently by Joseph Hindy (15 min)
- Briefly describe (in your own words) each of the tips below AND provide an example of a search that captures the sentiment of the tip
- Tip 2:
- Tip 3:
- Tip 4:
- Tip 9:
- Tip 13:
- Tip 14:
- Tip 17:
If you have any questions, comments, or confusions from any of the readings that you would like an instructor to address, list them below:
Article 1:
My key takeaway is the cooperative spirit in which we're all working. It struck me that when the author says that we are logically not the first coder to encounter any difficulty, that what we're really doing when we turn to Google is not just the "filling in" of the subtle details of a complex language but calling upon the collective experience of every programmer who has ever worked on this language and chose to record their findings.