Is the extra effort you put into discovering something yourself as opposed to looking it up really worth it? I would say in most cases there is a point of diminishing returns after you spent some time trying to figure it out where it makes sense to look the solution up in the library/internet/wherever.
Maybe my last comment wasn’t entirely clear:
Is the extra effort you put into discovering something yourself as opposed to looking it up really worth it? I would say in most cases there is a point of diminishing returns after you spent some time trying to figure it out where it makes sense to look the solution up in the library/internet/wherever.