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Slow down. Read every line of code. Learn what it's for. Learn why you do that pattern instead of the other one. This process can be made less time consumin
by proksoup 12y ago
Slow down.
Read every line of code.
Learn what it's for.
Learn why you do that pattern instead of the other one.
This process can be made less time consuming if you accept that you will still need to do things wrongly to keep your job, but over time you gather evidence and arguments to begin to improve the technique of yourself and your peers.
We all have a long ways to go.
- wjagodfrey 12y agoA good practice is to seek out incomprehensible pieces of code and figure them out so you can perfectly describe how they work. I don't do it as much as I should, but it's the best way of learning about a language.
- chaosphere2112 12y agoThis is my usual technique for learning a new system, though it's usually bug or feature driven; lots of tracing through every single line of the 1000 line function