by Ruben Hamers | May 4, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Evil Wizards The next section starts of with a really great insight. David and Andrew say that:”There’s no denying it—applications are getting harder and harder to write. User interfaces in particular are becoming increasingly sophisticated.”...
by Ruben Hamers | Apr 23, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Code That’s Easy to Test David and Andrew start this new section of with a description of people comparing software to an integrated circuit. Software components should be combined just as such circuit and such components must be known to be...
by Ruben Hamers | Apr 13, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Refactoring Refactoring, one of my favorite subjects since it always feels good to clean up the code. As your game evolves it will be necessary to clean up some junk you left behind. This is not necessarily about tech debt but simply has to do with the...
by Ruben Hamers | Mar 26, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Algorithm Speed Now, as we talked about in the introduction we will also discuss the topic of algorithm speed. This mostly boils down to being able to estimate with some level of precision your algorithm’s resources. Pragmatic programmers should be able...
by Ruben Hamers | Feb 24, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin While You Are Coding David and Andrew start new this chapter (6) off with a very shitty and outdated way of thinking and I’ll quote: “Conventional wisdom says that once a project is in the coding phase, the work is mostly mechanical, transcribing the...
by Ruben Hamers | Feb 4, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Blackboards So for the last section of this chapter we are going to dive into Blackboard architecture. Oh boy, who has nightmares about the Learning Management System in highschool!? All of these shitty tools were implemented with the blackboard architecture....
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