Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Reading other developer's code
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 
I just a wonderful hour-long experience going over multiple classes with a fellow developer. Sometimes talking about unfamiliar code someone else wrote can rock!
So my buddy Andrew wrote a bunch of classes in the scope of a larger application, and sent them over the fence to me via email. To see what he was doing, I printed the classes out and started marking up where they worked, etc. After ten minutes of doing that, I ran over to Andrew's cube and we just talked code for an hour. It was great to learn someone else's code quickly on the cuff, asking questions, making suggestions, etc.
I think I learned more about OOP and AS3 in that hour than I have in the past two weeks. All because I was starting with code I didn't write, didn't influence, and wanted to find out how it worked quickly. Sometimes we're all guilty of coding on our own cozy island and forget, as Neil Peart stated in Natural Science, "living in their pools they soon forget about the sea."
It's a great way to get yourself out of a little rut too. Andrew and I were coding up very similar stuff, but his take on it was somewhat different than mine. Made me think about what I was doing, what he did, and what we can combine it to make.
An awesome end to a Wednesday of coding.
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Jason said...“ah you'll love this:
http://www.vimeo.com/1195398?pg=embed&sec=1195398”
