In programming, a lot of writing code isn’t actually writing code.  A lot of programming is either finding code and using it as a reference, or finding code and just copying it to your program with slight modifications.  This saves programmers time and effort.  Why rewrite code?  However, sometimes code needs to be written because no reference can be found.  For large projects, this is often done in groups.  Which brings about an interesting problem: debugging other people’s code.

Ask any programmer what they hate most about programming and the answer will most likely be debugging.  Finding what’s wrong with code you wrote is the worst.  Because, in your mind, nothing’s wrong with it.  Why would you write code wrong the first time?  Often, the easiest way to debug is to wait a little while between coding and debugging, and taking a fresh look over your code.  So, this would mean that debugging other people’s code is easier. Read more