Professional programmers get paid to solve problems. It just happens that many problems can be solved through google.
There's nothing to be ashamed of if you need to do a bunch of searches to get your job done. What we all should be wary of though, is to have a job so that all of our problems are solved through googling.
Where we really earn our money is when we create something that wasn't there before, solving original problems.
> Professional programmers get paid to solve problems. It just happens that many problems can be solved through google.
This. Also, the web has largely displaced the bookshelf of resources that used to come with most language implementations (some with first-party documentation on websites, and some with web forums, etc.) So I really don't see any difference between using Google to find information when programming today than RTFMing when programming in the 1980s.
There's nothing to be ashamed of if you need to do a bunch of searches to get your job done. What we all should be wary of though, is to have a job so that all of our problems are solved through googling.
Where we really earn our money is when we create something that wasn't there before, solving original problems.