Ask HN: What are your tips for reading code? Reading other peoples code is a constant part of our work as developers. What are the most interesting tips you have on reading code? |
Ask HN: What are your tips for reading code? Reading other peoples code is a constant part of our work as developers. What are the most interesting tips you have on reading code? |
This seems to help me a lot.
Secondly, using an editor with expandos helps. Sometimes it’s better to simply know what a function requires and returns as opposed to reading the inner code of the function when you’re trying to get a full high level view of what the code is doing.