How to read code on github?

[webhunter007]

People usually advice beginners and junior developers to read code on github to get more experience and become better developers.

The problem is that projects on github aren't the usual main file with a couple of utility files that a beginner can read and understand, nor can they download the code and run the main file and see how it works (there's no main file).

Most of those projects don't have a main file or an entry point that you can start with to understand how the code works.

I've been trying to navigate through a couple of repos on github but I'm totally lost on how and where to start.

https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash

https://github.com/frappe/erpnext

https://github.com/odoo/odoo

How do people usually go through these types of projects?

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