It really depends on the level that you're at in your coding ability. When I was a younger programmer I had the fortune to have a CS professor who believed in r

It really depends on the level that you're at in your coding ability. When I was a younger programmer I had the fortune to have a CS professor who believed in reading good code and encouraged us to do so. Nowadays if I want to learn some new thing I'll find the 'right' code to read. Someone who has done somthing similar to what I am trying to do. But when I was younger and still trying to understand more basic concepts I just wanted to read 'good' code. I wanted to know how to structure programming logic. Now I don't want to know how to structure logic unless I'm really interested in learning some new fangled concept. Typically something having to do with concurrency since there always seem to be new ways to express concurrency in programming. Most of the code I look to read these days is because I want to start using a new library and I want to see how someone else has done it.