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cover of episode Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas

Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas

2009/11/2
logo of podcast Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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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.