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Having recently asked to help a student debug and analyze a final project for college, I can really see your point. The thing is, most people don't really take the time to look up for answers before asking for help and that really exasperates me. I think one of the main reason for this is that in college, they are not really taught how to look for answers.
In the same example above, I reached a particular error in the app, highlighted the error, and pressed F1, and hey, presto, the documentation of the problem, along with the solution came up. The students answer? I didn't know you could do that ?!?! How did she frikkin' survive to her final year ??!!
I'm sorry if this sounds so much like a rant, , but people who don't look for answers themselves before asking for help really pisses me off.
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We've had two graphic designers work with the company despite my prior work I've showed them, mostly because they want me working on architecting the app and its features, and actually writing them. Both graphic designers returned such crap that I ended up doing it anyway. The problem? They didn't know Photoshop very well. One guy did a horrible job removing a background because he didn't know about the extractor. One guy didn't even know how to do a drop shadow (either the hard way or the easy way)!
I whole-heartily agree with schools not teaching students to research, and I also see another problem: lack of exploration! I may not be a graphic designer, but I know Photoshop well because I explored its features. I learned practically every application that way (sans MS Money: since that manages my $$$, I wanted to be sure! ). I may not know for what a pivot table is useful, but I sure know how to make them!
People around the office are the same way. It took me over a year to get them to check the docs first, mostly by coming off as a bit of an a$$. I spend a great deal of time writing good comments for our code and generating help and no one reads it and always asks questions instead.
Ugh. What an industry!
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