I really enjoy my teaching of and in R, where it is preferable to develop most commands yourself. Preferable because it is just hard to google even fundamental tasks because it is hard to formulate your problem. You must use Google only strategically.

Then I taught a class on applied software development in Python and I had to learn that convention cannot be developed by just yourself, so most of the times it is indeed "Straight to google if it's something I don't know."

I think for the latter it is the right way to teach the process as messy as it is, but what does that say about it?

And not to be misunderstood: Most of the problems we face in R are harder to google because the user base for what we do is so much smaller.