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Ask HN:do you read other's code?
hi i'm a 17 years old guy who have started programming in my free time using the java programming language . recently i got a little curious about wenether programmers tend read code that they haven't written (open source project on the web ?) so i touht to ask the HN community.
do you read other's code ? if yes how often ? and do you apreciate that moment or is it just to get to how to make something specific?
- dragonbonheur 14y agoDownloading and unzipping code can be a hassle, so I just head over to Pastebin and read code there.
- mh_yam 14y agoI work as a software developer. I would say that I read other people's code quite often, depending on what I am doing.
- maxaf 14y agoAt work I read about 10x more code than I write.
- garysieling 14y agoAs a developer, we review each other's code to spread knowledge across the team and catch mistakes early.
- darkgaro 14y agoReading other developers code could be the best way to learn programming. You always find some creative way someone did to solve a problem.