Does anyone else have an issue where they struggle to read other people's code?
A friend recently just asked me to help them with an issue they had with a bit of code, so I asked them to send it over, however, once they sent it over, I could not make hide nor hair of what they were trying to do.
The code was well commented, and it was pretty clearly laid out with plenty of whitespace and indentation, but I just couldn't read it.
So, instead, I just asked them what the issue was, and I wrote out my own solution and sent it to 'em to stick in their own code.
It's something that I'll improve on over time, as we're all relatively new to programming, but even when it comes to the mock exam, where I have nothing else extracting me, and I have to work out what a piece of code is doing, it takes me an age, and I generally need to write it all down on a scrap piece of paper, with truth tables, my own version of the code all over the gaff.
Hopefully, it'll come to me naturally eventually. I mean, I have no problems writing my own code, and my code tends to be the most efficient in the class, and I'm often the first to finish an assignment, but it's just reading other people's code I have issues with.
This issue better go, as I forsee my working career with me combing over thousands and thousands of lines of other peoples code with a fine toothpick, and I don't think that entirely rewriting everything would be the most productive way to go about things.
Anyone else suffer with this?
