Diomidis Spinellis' "Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective" is a thing I've wanted but didn't know existed, browsing it now to hopefully recommend, thanks for the pointer.
I work with computer engineering students and often tell them that reading more code would be good for them but have never had a great generic but concrete suggestion for how to get there.
The second best programming class I took in college was a graduate elective and the _only_ code-reading-based course I took or knew of being offered: a guided safari in the Linux kernel sources where we had to make targeted changes for the assignments. FTR, the best programming class was set up as "new language in a different paradigm every few weeks, write one small program that suits it and one small program that doesn't," not incidentally taught by the same person ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Finkel ).
I work with computer engineering students and often tell them that reading more code would be good for them but have never had a great generic but concrete suggestion for how to get there.
The second best programming class I took in college was a graduate elective and the _only_ code-reading-based course I took or knew of being offered: a guided safari in the Linux kernel sources where we had to make targeted changes for the assignments. FTR, the best programming class was set up as "new language in a different paradigm every few weeks, write one small program that suits it and one small program that doesn't," not incidentally taught by the same person ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Finkel ).