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I personally like to reverse engineer functions within a certain codebase to better understand what is happening.

For example I would start by looking up out a basic example of that codebase and for each of the function calls go through the files and see what is happening. This gives me an idea of how the code base is written and how it works. It also gives a clear understanding of the level of separation/specificity of the different functions.

Disclaimer: not very experienced so there might be better ways to familiarising ones self with a new codebase, this is just one way of doing it and it has worked for me in the past.





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