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This beginner-friendly survival guide gives you the practical strategies you need to navigate, understand, and improve inherited code. With clear explanations and hands-on tips, you'll learn how to turn frustration into confidence as you work with real-world systems. Inside this book, you'll discover how to: Understand unfamiliar codebases with step-by-step exploration techniques. Use tools to read, search, and document legacy systems. Add tests to untested code without breaking things. Safely refactor messy functions and modules for clarity and maintainability. Communicate with teams and stakeholders about risks and improvements. Build confidence working on code you didn't write. Who this book is for: Junior developers inheriting their first legacy projects. Students and career-changers wanting to bridge theory with messy reality. Any developer looking to improve old code step by step. By the end, you'll not only survive legacy code-you'll know how to make it better while growing into a stronger, more confident developer.

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