Re:Learn to Read Code
by kazinator on Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:03AM
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The how-to-read-books advice from grandpa that is buried in this article is where the majority of its value lies.
If you skip over unknown words, or just acquire their apparent meaning by guessing from context, you don't really know those words and won't be able to use them effectively, or at all.
It's perfectly fine to gloss over code. You don't have time to understand at a maintainer level every nook and cranny of everything you have to work with.
If you skip over unknown words, or just acquire their apparent meaning by guessing from context, you don't really know those words and won't be able to use them effectively, or at all.
It's perfectly fine to gloss over code. You don't have time to understand at a maintainer level every nook and cranny of everything you have to work with.