How to understand source code from other people and projects

Analyzing MuseScore's source code

This is a set of documents that tries to explain a thought process for not just understanding MuseScore's, Audacity's and AE's source code, but also how to analyze code from any project.

• 📔 A method
• 🧠 for comprehending code
• 🚧 from ANY project
• 🤖 Without AI

Index

• 0. Introduction. How to not get frustrated when writing code
• 1. Overview. The project structure.
• 2. The build system. Create your own module (DeclareModuleSetup.cmake)
• Application workflow. Starting the application from start to finish. (main.cpp)
• Application loading. What is IApplication and what are modules (IModuleSetup).
• Modularity. What is ioc(), Inject<...> = { this };.