Ask HN:do you read other's code?

Posted by gryn010 on Monday April 01, 2013 @04:52PM
from the ask-hn dept.

hi i'm a 17 years old guy who have started programming in my free time using the java programming language . recently i got a little curious about wenether programmers tend read code that they haven't written (open source project on the web ?) so i touht to ask the HN community. do you read other's code ? if yes how often ? and do you apreciate that moment or is it just to get to how to make something specific?

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Re:Ask HN:do you read other's code? by darkgaro on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @06:52PM (#5482768)

Reading other developers code could be the best way to learn programming. You always find some creative way someone did to solve a problem.

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Re:Ask HN:do you read other's code? by mh_yam on Monday April 01, 2013 @05:11PM (#5475957)

I work as a software developer. I would say that I read other people's code quite often, depending on what I am doing.

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Re:Ask HN:do you read other's code? by garysieling on Monday April 01, 2013 @09:11PM (#5477085)

As a developer, we review each other's code to spread knowledge across the team and catch mistakes early.

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Re:Ask HN:do you read other's code? by dragonbonheur on Monday April 01, 2013 @05:08PM (#5475945)

Downloading and unzipping code can be a hassle, so I just head over to Pastebin and read code there.

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Re:Ask HN:do you read other's code? by maxaf on Monday April 01, 2013 @05:34PM (#5476088)

At work I read about 10x more code than I write.

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