Comment Re:A good starting point (Score 1) 532
My first job used a fairly low level language (CORAL) with about 250000 lines of code. I didn't really grasp it until one day I set up a process in debug, and stepped it through a few instructions at a time. I could then follow it through the code, and learnt how the main backbone worked.
In my next job, I had about the same amount of code in PHP, written in a curious pseudo object oriented fashion (the main designer had come from ASP). So again, I started with index.php, and debugged my way laboriously through each file.
It really helps if you can grasp the overall structure, and the only way to do that is on foot...