How to Read Complex Code • Felienne Hermans • YOW! 2021

It's speech Felienne Hermans is about the same topic as the book Code Reading. told yesterday. It’s funny that developers read code most of the time. (~ 60%)They don't write it, but rarely do they learn to read code rather than write it:) Therefore, the author decided to correct this situation and speak about reading code, as well as write a book “The Programmer’s Brain”, in which the same ideas are set out in much more detail.

If we turn to the talk itself, Felienne builds on what we know about people’s thinking today. It’s about how short term memory works. (STM), Long Term Memory (LTM) and Working Memory in general, and then lands it on development. She gives examples of code and shows how in different situations there are problems with reading code in APL, Java, Basic:) Then she talks about how you can improve your reading skills and explains how this will bring benefits.

Felienne is a practicing CS teacher for children, a researcher, and the creator of the Hedy programming language, which helps her teach children programming:) Learning Kids to Program with Hedy: A Gradual Programming Language told earlier.

In addition, at the end, the author recommended several books, one of which I really like is John Osterhuth’s book A Philosophy of Software Design, which I have reviewed in two parts: 1 and 2.

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