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Study Doom 3 Source Code [duplicate]
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How do you dive into large code bases?
I want to study the source code of a large project (for example, the Doom 3 source code) and I would like some help determining ...
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Does studying other people's programs help in self growth?
Should I be studying big softwares written by other people in our company? My work may be a small sub module on the top of that software, and I may not be required to know what goes beneath the hood, ...
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Where do you go to read good examples of source code? [closed]
I have heard a few people say that one of the best ways to improve your coding ability is to read others code and understand it. My question, as a relatively new programmer, where do I go to find ...
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How should I go about learning a very large and complex application?
Being a young and fairly inexperienced developer recently employed by a "real" software company I'd like some opinions and pointers on how to do the following:
Approaches on how to get familiar with ...
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How do I understand an open source project code?
I open the source code and it's folder upon folder of infinite files each with infinite lines of code which doesn't make much sense to me because I dont have the context, and half of it uses functions ...
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Where can I find simple, but well-written programs to learn from?
I've tried a few times to look at the source code for various things from github or other sites, in javascript, C#, PHP, etc. I'm never able to understand the programs as a whole though. I can sort of ...
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JavaScript a good more complex examples [closed]
I don't know much about real JavaScript except some really minor things like using some JQuery, reading JavaScript Good Parts book, but what I would really need is some application that I could dig ...
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Reading source code to learn
As you develop as a programmer, software developer, or coder, IMHO, you begin to see different (best or worst) practices, different algorithms, and "more than one way to do it". Seeing this code can ...
