Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective

If you are a programmer, you need this book.You've got a day to add a new feature in a 34,000-line program: Where do you start? Page 333How can you understand and simplify an inscrutable piece of code? Page 39Where do you start when disentangling a complicated build process? Page 167 How do you comprehend code that appears to be doing five things in parallel? Page 132You may read code because you have to--to fix it, inspect it, or improve it.