Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers

• Episode: Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas
• Website: Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers
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• Duration: 00:58:43
• Published: 2009-11-02 07:33

Dave explains why reading source code is at least as important a skill as writing source code. He shares approaches for how to get to grips with unknown and undocumented source code even if it is non-trivial in size. He finishes with advice for how to get started reading code.