[mattbgates]

Having worked and still working for years fixing other people's code... it definitely teaches you how to code and how not to code. I've seen things that made me question the competency of the programmer, but I've also seen many codes doing the same thing, but written in different ways. There are also those times where you think: "Wow, this code is so poetic!"

So reading other code can surely help. I have seen some Github projects where I would have loved to have used the project for personal use, but I just couldn't understand the coding style, or have had to incorporate my own coding style because I could not adopt the code as it was in the program.