2010-05-19, 09:06 AM
I look forward to the Som game and want to reiterate Todd's warnings / encourage you to not be discouraged if your Crystal Space adventure turns into a gameless learning experience.
About comments and code. A really good programmer knows how to write code that is self documenting (needs no comments 99% of the time) unfortunately most programmers are tragically taught to program in ways which were probably originally devised in order to make code inscrutable for whatever covert logic.
In other words, explaining what every line of code is doing (the way kids are taught in school) in English is really an ill fit as the purpose of code itself is to be efficient and separate from any particular human language (which in this day and age of international opensource coding you can't always assume your fellow programmers will speak your language)
About comments and code. A really good programmer knows how to write code that is self documenting (needs no comments 99% of the time) unfortunately most programmers are tragically taught to program in ways which were probably originally devised in order to make code inscrutable for whatever covert logic.
In other words, explaining what every line of code is doing (the way kids are taught in school) in English is really an ill fit as the purpose of code itself is to be efficient and separate from any particular human language (which in this day and age of international opensource coding you can't always assume your fellow programmers will speak your language)