Reading code

 

Once Scott Hanselmann did a series of blog posts about improving yourself as a developer. Part of this process was to read source code, each week he’d find a new piece of opensource code, look at it and discuss it. It was a great idea.

So in a similar way I’m starting look through source code on GitHub in order to learn from it and improve as a developer.

The first piece of source code I’m going to look at is Paul Robinsons air-sqlite library. The reason for this is that in the mobile app I’m working on I’m creating a small database and I did think that the code I’m writing for creating, updating and working with this database is something I’d repeat a lot. So a library that supports this repeated work seems like a good idea.