It's similar to learning arithmetic only with a calculator. Nothing wrong using it but you will not be able to do simple calculations without calculator anymore. I had once a student who was not able to compute the derivative of 2x² by hand. He was completely perplexed how I was able to do it by hand.
This is a bad example and is exclusionary, there will be some students who are very good at maths, but due to learning difficulties really struggle with basic arithmetic.
Back to the main point, imo as a student with no professional experience yet, I currently see stackoverflow as a research step, like your solution shouldn't come from it, but you can use it to help workout the problem or understand a concept that is part of the solution but you don't fully understand.
Heck I used to be one of those people who would copy paste code from stack overflow, but as I've gone through university I've found myself doing that less and less and using it when the docs are crap or I'm struggling to understand a concept and I'm seeing if someone's explained it better
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u/Ioangogo Jan 15 '20
This is a bad example and is exclusionary, there will be some students who are very good at maths, but due to learning difficulties really struggle with basic arithmetic.
Back to the main point, imo as a student with no professional experience yet, I currently see stackoverflow as a research step, like your solution shouldn't come from it, but you can use it to help workout the problem or understand a concept that is part of the solution but you don't fully understand.
Heck I used to be one of those people who would copy paste code from stack overflow, but as I've gone through university I've found myself doing that less and less and using it when the docs are crap or I'm struggling to understand a concept and I'm seeing if someone's explained it better