Few days ago I watched Felienne Hermans’ video at Manning titled How to read confusing code. She was pointing out that new developers are taught how to write code, but not how to read code. I didn’t yet read her book The Programmer’s Brain, but I can say that will be a great book to read.
Today I saw a book from Manning titled How to Read Java. This is a very good new trend and I would love to see books for many computer languages titled How to read XYZ.
@DevotionGeo - I read The Programmers Brain. An interesting book and yes I agree, we do need more literature and awareness on code reading.
I didn’t know about How To Read Java, as a Java developer this will definitely be in my radar now.
I saw on twitter that she will be writing a new book “Code Reading in Practice: Hands-on Techniques to Understand, Refactor and Improve How You Work With Code” from O’Reilly.