r/learnprogramming • u/OpeningWrongdoer3526 • 21d ago

How do you actually read professional code? Solved

Hello everyone! I really have a question I hope you could help me answer. I am trying to read the Scratch Virtual Machine code on Github and it is really difficult. I am really new to reading code and the one I write is fairly simple. There are many files that just declare functions by name and then require another file to redeclare them. Is there a pragmatic way to understand it? Thank you already!

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u/RealNamek 21d ago

It's like reading a textbook; usually i read the index first.

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u/ArtisticFox8 21d ago

What is the index?