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Code Literacy

Talkat jsday 2021 · on Tuesday, 2021-07-06· [developer-experience]
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Argues that code reading is a distinct skill with actionable methods: intensive reading (close focus on small snippets to hunt bugs), extensive reading (read lots of code for pattern recognition), and skimming/scanning tradeoffs; demonstrates a Signal example and points to a ready curriculum at codereading.org. Mentions tooling experiments at cozy that auto-generates architecture diagrams and zoomable maps (private beta), plus exercises and meetup formats that can be run by teams — watch for concrete exercises and the beta demo.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 9:44Intensive Reading
  3. 13:11Skimming and scanning
  4. 15:17Extensive Reading
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