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Ask Slashdot: How To Start Reading Other's Code?

Posted by timothy on from the first-hire-some-polish-mathematicians dept.

BorgeStrand writes "I'm reviving an open source project and need to read up on a lot of existing code written by others. What are your tricks for quickly getting to grips with code written by others? The project is written in C++ using several APIs which are unknown to me. I know embedded C pretty well, so both the syntax, the APIs and the general functionality are things I wish to explore before I can contribute to the project."

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  1. A mandatory declaration. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We will feast on what is inside!