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Tips for Reading Code

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I’ve been trying to get better at reading code. It’s an important . Too people neglect this skill, struggle other people’s code, and then accuse the code of being poorly written. the code is poorly written, but, as Joel Spolsky points out, sometimes is just inherently messy. Not to mention, the source code is the most up to documentation. If you’re having trouble using , reading the source code can clear up a lot of issues. I’m not amazing at reading code, but here’s my tips: , yes, your emacs config is amazing. I know. I’m typing this in emacs right this second. But is that a IDE is way more functional than , unless that editor is VSCode. You could spend setting up your config to use servers and file navigators and whatever, but an IDE gets you all of the way without any work. From there, learn to use the editor. Learn shortcuts for goto , and go from gotodefinition Learn to search in a file and search across directories. If you can, watch someone who is experienced with th

Tips for Reading Code Dec 10, 2021 I’ve been trying to get better at reading code. It’s an important skill. Too often people neglect this skill, struggle to read other people’s code, and then accuse the code of being poorly written. Sometimes the code is poorly written, but, as Joel Spolsky points out , sometimes the problem is just inherently messy. Not to mention, the source code is the most up to date documentation. If you’re having trouble using a library, reading the source code can clear up a lot of issues. I’m not amazing at reading code, but here’s my tips: Use a good IDE Yes, yes, you

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