How should I start Reading code?

Or how to get better at hacking?

Photo by Jilbert Ebrahimi on Unsplash

Reading code is a hard skill to inculcate. I just realized this just recently when I had to look at every sort of code be it C++, PHP, Java or Python. And I was really amazed how people around me were able to navigate such vast and diverse code bases. Did they really understand all these programming languages? Everyone around me was giving me code…