I think this mentality is taking toll & I see myself going back to SO repeatedly. Even for the code I had copied previously. I'm sure many face this issue. Would like to know how you overcame this?
Sometimes you get good answers on SO. Sometimes you get no answers, or you get wrong answers, or answer #5 is good but the ones above are all brain damaged.
Somebody ought to curate SO so there is at most one answer because you don't need more than one answer.
> "You don't need to memorize code. Just Google it".
This is the same as saying "you don't need to memorise english words, just look them up." Just imagine what the flow of the conversation would look like. Or how one would engage in commenting on HN.
> Would like to know how you overcame this?
I guess the answer is the same as with learning any other skill. Practice. In a dedicated learning setting, not at work.
And as a side note, I still believe a formal education, as oppose to self-taught, has some merits.
I got pulled kicking and screaming back into Python two years ago and I have learned how to look everything up in the official docs.
Other sources really aren't much easier to understand and they are often out-of-date or wrong.
Back when I was doing mainly Java I would read the Spring and Maven docs on my tablet while spinning at the gym. Spring and Maven are both fundamentally simple if you start with the fundamentals, but if you are working on a system that was written by people who didn't know the fundamentals and just cut-and-pasted from SO you will go insane.