I'm new to crypto currencies (last several months), although not new to programming.

I've heard from some people that a good way to get into crypto development is to look for abandoned altcoins, go through the code to try and understand it, deploy and update it, learning along the way. However as I go through some of the older posts in Announcement (Altcoins) almost all of them appear to be clones of each other, and there aren't any really simple altcoins I can go through.

Does anyone have any good altcoins with a relatively easy setup that I can go through the source code and learn how it all works? If anyone has any better ideas on how to start development in this space then I'm all ears too.

Thanks!