Funny how often I forget how powerful this can be sometimes. One nuance I would add though is reading straight through may not be the most effective strategy. Recall or testing is a super important aspect of transferring from short->long term memory. Reading a bit then playing with examples, or explaining the concepts to co-workers/friends can really help with the learning process.
Speaking of cloud technologies and reading source code, I’ve tried looking at the Python code that underpins gcloud, gsutil and bq command line utilities that come as part of the google sdk.<p>I don’t get it. Is this poor code or am I just not smart enough?