Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

Preface

As your programs get larger, it is critical that you understand how to write code in such a way that classes and modules can communicate with each other in an intelligent way. Knowing how to write code that is clean and extensible is critical for the success of medium to large scale projects, especially if there are multiple programmers involved. We don't want to spend time rewriting another programmer’s code because it is easier than figuring out how the original code works. Likewise, we don’t want other programmers to be confused by our code and rewrite solutions to problems that we already solved. This book explores the ins and outs of the most common ways to design code so that it can be understood, reused, maintained, and extended ...