On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:14:54 +0100, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:22:30 +0100, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> 
>>> Arguably it would be faster to start again from scratch rather than
>>> try and learn the OO codebase... :-S
>> 
>> Doubt it, otherwise new coders coming into the project would never get
>> started (into any project, for that matter).
> 
> I always wondered about this... How *do* you get started on a new
> project with millions of lines of code and no documentation?

You spend lots of time reading code and asking questions.  :-)

Or, what I did, was spend lots of time reading code and asking questions, 
but not as much as a programmer learning to contribute to the project 
would, and just spent my time looking at the pieces I was interested in.

I also came from a practical knowledge background from implementing the 
product, and spent a fair amount of time using source code analysis tools 
to look at call stacks taken from running systems.  Didn't give me a 
comprehensive view of what was going on, but I was able to suggest fixes 
for a couple of issues to the developers that were feasible.

Jim

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