Re: Understanding other people's code

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I forgot to mention idle.       It can step through another's code and show
you a step-by-step insructional, of what the code does.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:05 PM, David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> wrote:

> Any program, to me, is just like speaking english. The class, or function
> name might not fully mesh with what your cognitive structure assumes it to
> be.read through the imports first, and see the classes and functions come
> alive with experience comes intuition of what it does, and the instances
> that can be utilized with it. The term RTFM, and google always comes to
> mind as well.
>

-- 
Best Regards,
David Hutto
*CEO:* *http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com*

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Understanding other people's code "L O'Shea" <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-07-12 07:22 -0700
  Re: Understanding other people's code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-13 00:46 +1000
  Re: Understanding other people's code Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-07-12 17:21 +0200
  Re: Understanding other people's code "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org> - 2013-07-12 12:04 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-07-12 18:11 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-07-12 19:49 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2013-07-13 23:58 -0700
  Re: Understanding other people's code Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-07-15 03:02 -0700
    Re: Understanding other people's code CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2013-07-15 12:13 -0700
    Re: Understanding other people's code albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-07-27 13:13 +0000
      Re: Understanding other people's code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-27 14:41 +0100
  Re: Understanding other people's code asimjalis@gmail.com - 2013-07-15 19:10 -0700
  Re: Understanding other people's code David M Chess <chess@us.ibm.com> - 2013-07-16 14:38 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2013-07-16 20:05 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 22:57 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-07-25 09:26 -0700

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