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 2:
Tips 2, 3, and 4 are all about limiting the search to the most relevant information as quickly as possible: quotes for full strings, hyphens to remove common words that occur with irrelevant uses of the term, and colons to limit the whole search to a single site.
Tip 9 is about getting better results by searching for two concepts in conjunction
Tip 13, 14, and 17 are about our mindset in searching: using the proper words that will produce optimum results, and being flexible enough to try different combinations when our initial approach isn't fruitful.