• Earl Turlet@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    If you’re a developer, read the source code. People will tell you how they remember things working, or how they think they should work. The code is what it is.

    • ILikeCats@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know if that’s obvious for people entering this profession but mind that you don’t read code like a book. Check how the functions you use are implemented. What’s being called from where (call stack helps in the debugger). How are experience programmers managing their code etc. It’s a good skill to learn how to navigate other people code and quickly find the parts that matter

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      1 year ago

      Exactly! Always push for code pointers for everything people tell you about the codebase. Even if the code has a bug and isn’t working as intended, it’s so important to know the actual truth if what’s happening.