Today is one of those days where i feel i don't know anything about software development. How to learn programming from scratch is my latest google search :)

People working with a huge codebase, how do you guys go about creating a new feature in the application given that you are new to the development team? Do you guys isolate yourself to your own task or are busy debugging how some random thing like a configuration file gets loaded in the application.

Its been two days since i have been assigned a task and im not even close to starting what im supposed to do. Instead im stuck in what seems to be an infinite loop of debugging :)