Game Development Patterns and Best Practices

Learning fundamental code quality techniques

The process of moving from beginner to expert programmer can be challenging. In the beginning, you must learn not only the rules of the language, but also how to use a compiler and understand the error messages. Moreover, you are trying to solve increasingly difficult programming problems while following what might seem like arbitrary rules for writing good code. Most novice programmers are focused on solving a given problem, as opposed to making the code look nice. To many, it seems worthless to spend time making the code look clean, because it will almost certainly be deleted after writing it. Even more experienced programmers may ignore code style in the rush to complete an assignment or finish ...