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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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How to handle a 'bad code' interview?
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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Best Practices and Tips for Reading Source Code [closed]
Code reading is an important part of a programmer's life because we usually work in groups and have to maintain, complete or contribute to the other developer's codes. From that point of view, code ...
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Start reading Ruby (on Rails) code
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 read Scala code with lots of implicits?
Consider the following code fragment (adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/a/12265946/1333025):
// Using scalaz 6
import scalaz._, Scalaz._
object Example extends App {
case class Container(i: ...
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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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Where should I start reading AngularJS's source code?
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 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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What diagram to construct when familiarizing oneself with new code?
When I first encounter a new code base, I often find myself constructing flowchart-like-thingies-on-paper, while stepping through the code - either by reading it, or with the debugger.
Another ...
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Does reading fiction improve one's ability to read technical material? [closed]
Does any know of a study or personally witnessed any change, or lack of change, in technical reading skills after spending a good deal of time reading fiction?
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kindle paperwhite [closed]
How good is the kindle paperwhite to read programming e-books?, I was looking info but anyone gives any answer from the own experience, and the current answers are outdated (> 2 years)
It is a kindle ...
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Reading Open Source Projects [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you dive into large code bases?
About my programming knowledge:
I have basic knowledge of programming.
Have never worked in a team project.
Have done, only, a ...
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How to understand codebase of complex opensource application [duplicate]
I'm trying to develop a new feature for open source application. But the existing application uses different APIs like Qt and KDE3. And more over the existing files are also very complexand depend on ...
