My technique for reading code is to find out where execution starts and go from there, following what the code does at runtime. If you do it any other way, it

My technique for reading code is to find out where execution starts and go from there, following what the code does at runtime. If you do it any other way, it won't necessarily make sense. This is really the only way to do it. (Though I'd be interested in hearing other perspectives.) This was a hard-won lesson for me because we programmers tend to make the control flow of our programs start at the bottom of source files.