Being able to read others’ code is essential for maintaining, improving and collaborating on any meaningful software project. It’s rare to write all the original code in an application yourself, and even rarer for an application to be completely rewritten from scratch. More likely, your workflow will involve working with code that was written by someone else (who may no longer be available to explain it) and iterated on by others (who also might be out of reach) long before it ever appears on your screen.
This makes reading and…
