Lesson 1

Question 1

What’s most important is that

Answer 1

you can find the answer, not that you know the answer right away

Question 2

Techniques used for effective internet searching:

Answer 2

• Type using keywords instead of full sentences
• Add ‘example’ to your query if you want to see an example
• Add the specific language you are coding in to your query, e.g. ‘python’
• Use double quotations when you need an exact match in your search
• Make sure to check the date of what you are referencing, languages often change over time

Question 3

What can you do if you are confronted with an error message?

Answer 3

Enter it into your search engine

Question 4

What can you do to further narrow down results to what you are searching?

Answer 4

Add key words and quotation marks

Question 5

It’s not about what we already know,

Answer 5

it’s about how we learn. It’s about the tenacity of sitting in front of a computer and searching until you find the right answer. It’s about staring at every line of code until you understand what’s going on, or searching until you do. It’s about searching how-to, examples, errors, until it all begins to make sense. Everything else will follow.