Code reading
- What is the best way to understand a feature OR a tool?
- How to fix bugs reported against some feature/code?
- How to learn, optimized techniques of implementing algorithm?
- How to be better at writing codes ?
The bottom line is 'learning' !
Here are some of the points I found,
- Read Documentation
- Read source code
- Write Code and experiment
This can be further drilled down to,
- Build and run it
- Try to get an overview of what the code does.
- Draw some flowcharts to understand the flow
- Review
- Use tools e.g. cscope/ctags
- Understand unit tests, if possible try to write some
- Present your understanding to peers
- The best starting point could be open source project like coreutils on linux or less
- Also talk to the developers who know the code well and correct your understanding.
In short its on-going and evolving process. Hope you are blessed with lot of patience! I am not
an expert at understanding code written by others(yet), but I have started on this path.
Cheers
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