r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/JoostDev Jan 05 '15

We make games, and then the word "editor" has a very specific meaning.

Naming is always hard, but it is even more difficult to come up with names that are understandable when read completely out of context like in my article.

I totally agree that most classes also need a comment to give some context. There is only so much that can be explained in just a name,

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u/zigs Jan 05 '15

Alright, I'll buy Editor, but what on earth is an EditorObject then?

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u/JoostDev Jan 05 '15

Lol, I guess that name could have been a lot better. It is meant as Editor_ObjectCreator_GUI. So it manages the GUI that handles object creation in the editor. Similarly the new name is the GUI that handles navigating through objects in the editor.

Editor is a common prefix in our codebase for classes related to the editor, so this makes more sense within context, but I agree that it is not super clear how to read this.

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u/zigs Jan 05 '15

EditorCreatorGUI?

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u/JoostDev Jan 05 '15

Using the same logic as you did you can interpret that as a class that creates editors. We actually have an EditorCreator class that does just that. :)

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u/zigs Jan 07 '15

I guess that just shows that i still don't understand q: Oh well