How do programmers find the correct files and lines of code to edit in an open source project when they want to add or improve functionality.

Question

How do programmers find the correct files and lines of code to edit in an open source project when they want to add or improve functionality.

In: 58

Answer 1

Same way that you would find the right recipe in a cookbook. You’d know roughly where to look anyway (i.e. you wouldn’t be looking under roast dinners if you were baking a cake), you would expect it to be sectioned out nicely so you can find stuff, you could search through things if you needed to, and – with code – you can do stuff like load it into a development environment (IDE) and use its features to find the things you’re looking for.