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Challenge: Other people's code

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Challenge: Other people's code

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] In this challenge, we're dipping into something that can be a source of consternation for many developers. Other People's Code. We will be debugging some code we've never seen before at all, using a framework that we might not be overly familiar with, that we're pretending someone else has given up on, and handed to us. I hope that doesn't sound too terrifying. It's not a ton of code, don't worry. But if you're asking, why are we doing this? Let me explain, and hopefully assuage any major concerns. First, if you're a professional, or enthusiastic web developer, you won't always be starting everything from scratch. You will almost certainly be handed other people's code to work on at some point. And there will be times when that code appears, and maybe sometimes is terrible. I also think it's true that dealing with the unfamiliar is intrinsically a good thing in code, and if you'll…

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