Similar to the rise of the StackOverflow programmer. You can get pretty far just by Googling error-codes and brute-forcing a problem in a domain without any experience (I should know).
Maybe not the best way to learn, but in such a technologically complex world, it can sometimes be more effective...
Even when I know how to potentially solve a problem I often search it on StackOverflow anyway because I know often I'll find a much better solution from developers who are either more talented than myself or have simply spent longer thinking about all the edge cases.
Maybe not the best way to learn, but in such a technologically complex world, it can sometimes be more effective...