The process of learning code.

[KingKire]

Over the past couple weeks ive been poking around the ss13 source files trying to understand a little more about how the whole thing works. Its a wee bit difficult so i gotta ask how those who managed to gain experience with such spaghetti how one became knowledgeable in such arts?

[Seehund]

This is probably the response you'll get the most:

Learn by doing. Take a look at the github of ANY major code base. Look at the issues, the pull requests. Understand what was changed and why. Try your hand at fixing the smaller bugs, maybe a small feature when you've got some confidence.

[KingKire]

I already dived into the ss13 reddit about code, im just looking for some extra nuggets of info or maybe some interesting stories on how the members here went about coding. maybe they picked it up through classes or maybe they picked it up through youtube videos via game maker or flash etc. Generic answers and paths are easy to find with a little googlefu but its always nice to hear how another person did it to maybe compare notes or find out an interesting path.