Re:Ask HN: Do you have to read a lot of text as a programmer?
by gravypod on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @04:57PM
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I feel the same but I think it's important to specify that most of the reading I've had to so to learn a lot about programming, and code much more specifically, is very structured.
You don't need to read every word most of the time because most programming related information, documentation, and tutorials are amazingly categorized. I think this is more so then any other field. Do you need to learn about some obscure topic? There's someone who's written some perfect sample code to do your task.
You only need to read a lot because you need to do a lot of different things in the course of your day.
Reading code is certainly important as well; this comes naturally for me after working with a code base for some time. (Blocks of code become more and more familiar as I work with them and I need to peruse less and less. This is especially true for well modularized code bases and code bases with good issue tracking.)
As a programmer I read a lot.