You want to be a better programmer and they tell you all the time to read good source codes from open source repositories to be better programmer. But how to read existing source code to be a better programmer?

Here are a few great (short and quick) tips compiled for you to get a deep understanding of other people’s source code effectively and efficiently and thus be a better programmer, faster.

Try to give inputs to this part of code if it can be isolated, and see what output it provides. If it can be isolated, first focus on the parts of codes that you can understand.
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