Can’t help but get the impression that even people here aren’t very good at Googling. Maybe they should be taking Google’s little search class; knowing how to search seems like the sort of skill that would payoff constantly over a lifetime.
It appears to me that in half of these examples people hadn’t tried to google at all. It doesn’t seem particularly likely to me that the class would develop such a habit. Not that I have a better idea.
My belief is that the more familiar and skilled you are with a tool, the more willing you are to reach for it. Someone who has been programming for decades will be far more willing to write a short one-off program to solve a problem than someone who is unfamiliar and unsure about programs (even if they suspect that they could get a canned script copied from StackExchange running in a few minutes). So the unwillingness to try googling at all is at least partially a lack of googling skill and familiarity.
It appears to me that in half of these examples people hadn’t tried to google at all. It doesn’t seem particularly likely to me that the class would develop such a habit. Not that I have a better idea.
My belief is that the more familiar and skilled you are with a tool, the more willing you are to reach for it. Someone who has been programming for decades will be far more willing to write a short one-off program to solve a problem than someone who is unfamiliar and unsure about programs (even if they suspect that they could get a canned script copied from StackExchange running in a few minutes). So the unwillingness to try googling at all is at least partially a lack of googling skill and familiarity.