[auggierose]

I try to read as little code as possible. If I have to read the code of somebody else (other than code review) it is usually because the code contains some flaw; only rarely because I genuinely don't know how the code does what it claims to do.

Don't read code. Read papers. Build a model of your algorithms etc. in your mind. Describe this model in a wiki. Translate the model into interfaces. Then write the code that implements those interfaces.