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The most obvious way to improve your coding is to write more code. Everybody knows that. However, another activity which I guarantee will improve your coding is the complete opposite of writing.
If you want to dramatically increase your programming skills you need to be reading other people’s code.
What to Read
- Read Code That You Rely On
- Read Code That Impresses You
- Read Code Written By Somebody You Respect
- Read Code That You Can Actually Grok
How to Read
- See the Big Picture
- Document Your Findings
- Use the Tests, Luke
- Execute, Change Stuff, Execute
- Rinse and Repeat
Where To Start
- The single most influential factor in my code reading is GitHub: http://github.com/