I recommend by first reading through a high-level style guide. Guides produced by larger orgs like FaceBook, Etsy etc are usually a good starting point - high

I recommend by first reading through a high-level style guide. Guides produced by larger orgs like FaceBook, Etsy etc are usually a good starting point - high level but without too much technical mud. After that, depending on whether you like getting your feet wet or taking a more formal approach my two go to methods are either: 1) reading through a "code by example" for the lang or 2) finding a cool relatively simple project written in the lang and stepping back to the very first commit and reading diffs from there (I also recommend this technique for picking up design pattern / design strategies in general)