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This answer is going to be rather unortodox and might get downvoted but this is how I do it: I just skim throught all the sources, then somehow I am able to po
by vpeters25 11y ago
This answer is going to be rather unortodox and might get downvoted but this is how I do it:
I just skim throught all the sources, then somehow I am able to point approximate file and line of code where a specific question might be answered.
This might sound "out there" but I realized during college I had the ability to recall the approximate location of specific information I needed from a textbox If I just skimmed through the whole book at the start of the semester.
For years I did this out of intuition, then about 10 years ago I took a course named "photoreading" and to my surprise they were teaching my "ability" but with clear steps so anybody could use it effectively.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoThis is underrated - folks are scared to just read the whole thing. Most of our thinking isn't conscious. The sooner you have an impression of the whole code, the sooner you can start having insights. I read the whole thing, every time I start with a new code base that I'm going to be spending time with.