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Reading Other Peoples Code

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This talk presents a practical process for reading and understanding unfamiliar codebases, including techniques for navigating files, tracing behavior, investigating runtime execution, and learning from existing code. It draws on the speaker’s 18 years of programming experience.

Syllabus

Introduction
Getting the code
Why
The process
The 10 techniques
Grepping
Button
Following input events
Tests
Refactoring
Maine
Main Layout
Runtime Investigation
Reading a Class
Retelling Rubber Duckie
iterative process
psychological safety
learning mode

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