How to Read Through Large Code Bases

2/4/15 -- Professor Gabe Parmer gave a talk on how to read through a large code base. He focused on many different techniques on where to start, how to proceed, and how to repeat.

• Man pages and docs aren't everything. Especially in systems
• He said always start by having a goal
• Use command line tools such as grep to narrow down your goal
• Keep trying to dig through the code towards your goal keeping in mind that human memory can only hold 7 +/- 2 items.
• Work with your goal to solve the issue and then move onto the next one.

Slides from the presentation can be found here.