This beginner-friendly survival guide gives you the practical strategies you need to navigate, understand, and improve inherited code. With clear explanations and hands-on tips, you'll learn how to turn frustration into confidence as you work with real-world systems. Inside this book, you'll discover how to: Understand unfamiliar codebases with step-by-step exploration techniques . Use tools to read, search, and document legacy systems. Add tests to untested code without breaking things. Safely ...
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This beginner-friendly survival guide gives you the practical strategies you need to navigate, understand, and improve inherited code. With clear explanations and hands-on tips, you'll learn how to turn frustration into confidence as you work with real-world systems. Inside this book, you'll discover how to: Understand unfamiliar codebases with step-by-step exploration techniques . Use tools to read, search, and document legacy systems. Add tests to untested code without breaking things. Safely refactor messy functions and modules for clarity and maintainability . Communicate with teams and stakeholders about risks and improvements . Build confidence working on code you didn't write. Who this book is for: Junior developers inheriting their first legacy projects . Students and career-changers wanting to bridge theory with messy reality . Any developer looking to improve old code step by step . By the end, you'll not only survive legacy code-you'll know how to make it better while growing into a stronger, more confident developer.
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