Diving into Other People's Code

Re:Diving into Other People's Code by mooreds on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:17PM (#11300748)

I think that understanding and building a mental model of the workings of an existing program is the second most important developer skill.

This seems like a great example of how to build that mental model, from strategy to 'in the weeds' step by step instructions.

(The most important skill is building a mental model of the workings of reality.)

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Re:Diving into Other People's Code by civilian on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:10PM (#11301065)

> (The most important skill is building a mental model of the workings of reality.)

Sorry, that's just too funny. It has a "in order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" kind of attitude. It kind of makes sense, computer science is just applied physics and logic.

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Re:Diving into Other People's Code by mooreds on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:38PM (#11301221)

Ha! I wasn't aiming for that. I was thinking more along the lines of "understanding the real world requirements, and having a mental model complete enough to see where the success and error cases would lead you".

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Re:Diving into Other People's Code by throweway on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:45AM (#11303218)

Thats has how i took it

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