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Thanks for the advice! > As a mostly self taught programmer the advice I'll give it to read docs and learn to read code. This is when my skills really increase
by alabhyajindal 2y ago
Thanks for the advice!
> As a mostly self taught programmer the advice I'll give it to read docs and learn to read code. This is when my skills really increased.
How did you improve your ability to read code? It's currently hard for me to understand a largish codebase written by others without much documentation. eg. I thought of contributing to htmx [1], cloned the repo but couldn't make heads or tails of the codebase - even though it's a single file, albeit a long one.
1. https://htmx.org https://htmx.org
- godelski 2y ago> How did you improve your ability to read code? You're going to hate me for this, but it's by reading lots of code and being very very confused. When tackling a large code base I still pull out pen and paper and create flow charts. And don't fret that you suck at it now. These are really hard things but they take time