Learning a new codebase
Novice / Talk
September 9th 10:30 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.
This talk will be on methods of reading code for comprehension. While the project will be walking through various third-party Django apps, the experiences and conclusions are drawn from joining a large, existing Django project which lacked documentation.
Abstract
In the broadest sense, this talk is on how to read code. More than this, it is a series of methods and practices which one can follow to get up to speed on a new codebase. The subject of this talk will be open-sourced Django projects, but many of the experiences which fuel this talk will be based on joining a new team. It will cover tracing execution paths, finding the more interesting portions of a codebase, as well as how to address any issues you may have found in it.