Programming for Game Design: A Hands-On Guide with Godot

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W. Wang, T. WalcottProgramming for Game Designhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0190-7_9

9. Understanding Dictionaries

Wallace Wang¹   and Tonnetta Walcott²

(1)

San Diego, CA, USA

(2)

El Cajon, CA, USA

 

Every program needs to store data and that data usually gets stored in one or more variables. However, the more data a program needs to store, the more variables you need to create. Even worse, multiple variables make it hard to know which variables might be related to one another. This is why it is important to declare variables early on and to make your program as simple as possible.

Two ways to avoid using multiple variables are to use an array or a dictionary. ...