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I have actually just printed out codebases and read them cover to cover before (sometimes referencing ahead for context), as a senior engineer. If you need to
by loeg 2y ago
I have actually just printed out codebases and read them cover to cover before (sometimes referencing ahead for context), as a senior engineer. If you need to quickly understand what every line is doing on a small to medium sized body of code, it's a pretty good way to avoid distraction and ramp up quickly. I find that just reading every line goes pretty quickly and gives me a relatively good memory of what's going on.
- ninetyninenine 2y agoDoing this requires higher IQ. Believe it or not a ton of people literally don’t do this because they can’t. This ability doesn’t exist for them. Thousands of pages of code is impossible to understand line by line for them. This separation of ability is very very real.
- pdhborges 2y agoI don't read all the lines of code but I open and scan a ton of files from the code base to get a feel of which concepts abstractions and tricks are used.