Augmented Reality for Developers

Adding a global timescale

Presently, you might have already noticed that both our scripts, Spin and Orbit, have a gametimePerDay variable that does the same thing--defines the number of game seconds that correspond to an earth hour.

No one writes code without expecting to change it. Programming is a dynamic art as you rethink how to do things, as requirements grow, and problems get fixed. Sometimes, these changes are not necessarily to add a new feature or fix a bug but to make the code cleaner, easier to use, and easier to maintain. This is called refactoring, when you change or rewrite parts of a program but do not necessarily change what it does, that is, its behavior.

Let's refactor our code to remove this duplication and put this variable ...