First Major Software Development Project

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So, I am a new electrical engineer, but I just got put on a software 
development project.  It is a development board with a bunch of sensor 
attachments.  The code for the board has mostly been written and a lot 
of the driver libraries for the sensor attachments have been written.  I 
have to write a few more libraries for some new sensors.

I don't have a problem with C++.  I am very familiar with it.  However, 
I have never been taken on a massive development project before.  What's 
more is that the other programmer doesn't document his 
code...whatsoever.  The development software has automatic documentation 
through a markdown language, but he doesn't use it.  Nor does he even 
comment his code, other than the occasional line that was 
self-explanatory (e.g. "// end of for loop").

My first question is, do you have any tip for someone who is on their 
first software development project?  Secondly, how should I go about 
figuring out this code?  Should I write documentation for it?  Should I 
try to construct UML diagrams?  Flowcharts?  Stick figures? 
Role-playing?  ESP?

Any help or thoughts would be appreciated...even unhelpful, sarcastic, 
funny ones.

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First Major Software Development Project Taylor Street <taylorkstreet@outlook.com> - 2016-10-21 23:52 -0700
  Re: First Major Software Development Project Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2016-10-22 06:22 -0700
  Re: First Major Software Development Project "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-10-22 15:57 -0400
  Re: First Major Software Development Project David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-10-24 16:25 +0200

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