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Post by John Cartwright »

david2007 wrote: MrPotatoes said:
wow, that code is ugly as all hell

Will your client pay you more because you did a "pretty code"?
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Absolutely. In fact, often enough these clients will have to have a new programmer re-do the project written in spaghetti code left behind when he wants to modify his site. Sure, your ideology makes sense, if your making a couple of pages, but have you ever picked up a medium to large project from a previous coder, written entirely in spaghetti? It certainly is difficult.

Imagine a project written with 100,000 lines of code of spaghetti. Refactoring would nearly be impossible.

This same principle applies to Unit Tests. Sure they are a pain and take a bit longer, but they ensure code quality (to a degree), documentation, and a testing mechanism which down the road will save you time than having to learn and decipher the spaghetti code written project.

And honestly, what is wrong with the other frameworks out there? It certainly wouldn't take longer than an our of reading the frameworks documentation to understand how to operate it. If there were no documentation, then I'd understand.

Either way, :?
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what Jcart said. i'll get paid no matter if my code looks like dookie on a stick or the Taj Mahal
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Post by MrPotatoes »

OOP in games. fantastic. i hope you are doing 2D and nothing super dooper in 3D.

yeah, that's programmer talk lol
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Hockey wrote:Programming is all about problem solving and in problem solving it's always best to divide and conquer...decompose a problem into as many small problems as possible.
Rally to the call...;)
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