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Asked: 2026-05-12T06:28:53+00:00

I am a new to professional development. I mean I have only 5 months

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I am a new to professional development. I mean I have only 5 months of professional development experience. Before that I have studied it by myself or at university. So I was looking over questions and found here a question about code quality. And I got a question related to it myself. How do I increase my code understanding/reading skills? Also will it improve the code quality I will write? Is there better code notation than Hungarian one? And is there any really good books for C++ design patterns(or the language doesn’t matter?)?
Thank you in advance answering these questions and helping me improving 🙂

P.S. – Also I have forgot to tell you that I am developing with C++ and C# languages.

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    There is only way I’ve found to get better at reading other peoples code and that is read other peoples code, when you find a method or language construct you don’t understand look it up and play with it until you understand what is going on.

    Hungarian notation is terrible, very few people use it today, it’s more of an in-joke among programmers.

    In fact the name hungarian notation is a joke itself as:

    “The term Hungarian notation is
    memorable for many people because the
    strings of unpronounceable consonants
    vaguely resemble the consonant-rich
    orthography of some Eastern European
    languages.”

    From How To Write Unmaintainable Code

    “Hungarian Notation is the tactical
    nuclear weapon of source code
    obfuscation techniques; use it! Due to
    the sheer volume of source code
    contaminated by this idiom nothing can
    kill a maintenance engineer faster
    than a well planned Hungarian Notation
    attack.”

    And the ever popular linus has a few words to say on the matter.

    “Encoding the type of a function into
    the name (so-called Hungarian
    notation) is brain damaged—the
    compiler knows the types anyway and
    can check those, and it only confuses
    the programmer.”

    – Linus Torvalds

    EDIT:

    Taken from a comment by Tobias Langner.

    “For the differences between Apss Hungarian and Systems Hungarian see Joel on Software“.

    Joel on Software has tips on how to read other people code called Reading Code is Like Reading the Talmud.

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