Questions tagged [reading-code]
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What information should one infer from a class header that marks its constructor explicit?
If a class is written well, you should be able to gleam all relevant information about the class simply by looking at its header.
If one sees that the constructor is marked explicit:
What should one ...
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How can I know when a paper is too hard for me to be able to implement their code and/or understand their math - within a given deadline?
I've been assigned to explore implementing (along with modifications, so understanding it is a must) this algorithm for the 'Redistricting Problem': https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3274895.3274979 ....
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Best practices for understanding/resurrecting old technical code?
Recently, I've been in a few situations where I needed to quickly come up to speed on old code and fix it sufficiently for people to be able to use it again. The code I've worked on tends to have the ...
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Difficulties in reading code
I don't have more than 6 months of experience and I am a little lazy . I work on Android platform . I have very good skills in understanding what is happening in general . The problem is that I don't ...
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What can I infer from someones code when they use direct initialization with Curly Braces as opposed to Parenthese?
Up until now, I have been initializing most of my variables as such:
const QString foo("bar");
Which from my newfound understanding, is known as direct initialization. (http://en.cppreference.com/w/...
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As a software engineer, how important is it to read other's code?
I am a budding software engineer (now a sophomore, major in CS) and I really struggle to understand other people's programs. I want to know if this skill (or lack of it) can be a handicap for me, and ...
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What are some good approaches for reading Javscript code?
I'm looking for suggestions on how to read large Javascript codebases, for example, of a framework. For example, let's say P5js, but this applies to any large framework (i.e like AngularJS, Ember, etc)...
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Advice for volunteer developers learning large codebases [closed]
Working in an open source project has the result that sometimes developers with no experience in the codebase attempt to "learn the code" on their own.
There is a reccurring trap I've seen, ...
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Reading assembly useful for insights when writing C/C++? [closed]
While in most cases its not necessarily, recently I have taken to reading the generated assembly of my C code every so often, when I'm curious as to the kinds of optimizations my compiler is making. ...
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Where should I start reading AngularJS's source code? [closed]
After reading this article I realized that I really didn't read any "serious" source code during my 3-years as a professional developer.
Recently I started a new web-project which makes heavy use of ...
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What is the best way to understand code in a project with null documentation?
It is our first game and we are a start-up. We had a programmer who suddenly is seeming to be a dead weight. Though we knew him personally we thought that he was as motivated as we are and hence I ...
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How to read Scala code with lots of implicits?
Consider the following code fragment (adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/12265946/1333025):
// Using scalaz 6
import scalaz._, Scalaz._
object Example extends App {
case class Container(i: ...
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What are best practices to read high level undocumented and uncommented code?
There are some opensource projects, that have classes and classes without any significant explanation about what the class does and or why is that class needed. For example, classes in the CppEditor ...
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How should someone used to FP thinking read imperative code?
I graduated from university about five months ago, and have been working in a local startup for past four months. While at university, I studied Haskell, F# etc on my own. We were taught Java at the ...
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Start reading Ruby (on Rails) code [closed]
I'm an experienced developer which quite some experience in meta programming. I just found my way to Ruby and want to understand more of Rails (and related) project internals. Even if I understand the ...
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How to handle a 'bad code' interview? [closed]
A 'bad code' interview is one where the interviewee is shown a snippet of 'bad code' and asked to correct it or point out things that are wrong with it. I have trouble with these interviews because it ...
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