expectations of professional coders.

Question

does everyone expect you to be able to answer any question about anything or do people constantly ask each other for help to remember code all the time?

Answer 1

“Nothing is so much strengthened by practice, or weakened by neglect, as memory.” — Quintillian (A.D. 35–100)

Answer 2

Most of the time, pros look up to docs until they remember them almost word by word, then, if there's a problem pros can't solve, they are trying to find abstract solution by testing. If none were found - they start asking.

Answer 3

@matthew Noone knows everything.
For every strong person, there is always someone stronger than him in the world
~ Translated tamil proverb

Answer 4

@Vengat you can know everything, if you take Time as flowing instance. But in the very next moment a new knowledge will be born elsewhere, making you 'not-so-allknowing' again.