Many of the best programmers I've seen google stuff. So do many of the worst I've seen.
The difference is the former won't type a single statement without knowing what it does first, while the latter will just copy and paste something that seems to work, regardless they understand it or not.
The last time I came across some copy-pasted code that was giving some troubles, and after asking the owner of that code what some stuff did, he was unable to tell me, after claiming it was just fine, because the code he copied was from a trustworthy source. This, I guess, is a bad practice of how googling things should work.
The difference is the former won't type a single statement without knowing what it does first, while the latter will just copy and paste something that seems to work, regardless they understand it or not.
The last time I came across some copy-pasted code that was giving some troubles, and after asking the owner of that code what some stuff did, he was unable to tell me, after claiming it was just fine, because the code he copied was from a trustworthy source. This, I guess, is a bad practice of how googling things should work.