I am starting a new job in a company with many developers and media people, the layout of the place is open with computers around a skinny oval,

I have worked in small teams and programming embedded C, the jobis for objective C

I'm still in a medium stage, so I know what I don't know (haha), that means I have to google it and then implement it, 

So the question is how bad does it look if the guy next to you does lot of searching for coding 

I mean, at the end of the day I will get the job done, but want to look professional too!

Programming makes you a good coder; reading can make you a good developer:


Browse API documentation to make sure you don't reinvent the wheel or use the APIs incorrectly or inefficiently.
Look up language documentation to make sure you don't continue programming in language Foo when starting to work with language Bar.
Read and understand best practices and patterns to know when to use them.
Look up code samples, then use them as templates instead of copying verbatim. That way you're sure to have understood at least the general structure of the code.


If someone else doesn't appreciate just how much you have to read to be able to write good code, s/he is not a developer.
