Do you use your brain or Google to solve your problems?
mechanical_fish: Yes. ;)This is what programmers are paid for. To decide on a case-by-case, moment-by-moment basis whether to use Google (and, more importantly, which phrases to Google and which results you should try to use) or whether to work through something on your own, or phone a friend, or surrender and just do something else.There is no general rule.I expect that within another generation nobody will distinguish between "thinking" and "using Google", just as I don't distinguish between "solving a problem on my own" and "solving a problem on my own by remembering something I read a month ago".