Friday
Room 3 - Level 4
11:40 - 12:40
(UTC±00)
Talk (60 min)
Reading Code
As developers, we spend a lot of time learning to write code, but very little time learning to read code. Meanwhile, we spend more time reading code than actually writing it. Especially in the age of AI assisted coding, as it becomes easier to produce more code faster, being able to quickly evaluate code will become even more important. Shouldn’t we be spending more time and effort improving our code reading skills?
Deliberate practice can help us get better at reading code. Learning how to better read and understand code, can in turn teach us what makes code readable and might even help us to write code that is easier to read.
In this talk we will discuss the benefits of deliberately practicing reading code in a code reading club without an IDE, as well as strategies to navigate a new codebase and read unfamiliar code using the IDE.
We'll also look at how AI Assistant can help us to understand existing code, and why it is important for us to be able to evaluate AI generated code.
Marit van Dijk
With 20 years of software development experience in different roles and companies, Marit loves building awesome software with amazing people and making developers lives better.
She enjoys learning new things as well as sharing knowledge on programming, software development, testing & test automation, and more.
She has contributed to open-source projects like Cucumber and several other projects. Marit speaks at international conferences, in webinars, and on podcasts, writes blog posts and tutorials, and contributed to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).