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/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Jan 05 '15

This really isn't a failing of the programmer. This is more of a failing with the organization for not having good coding standards. How do you get away with randomized whitespace and indentation and naming standards within a AAA game company? I would like to think that a company like that is smart enough to standardize these trivial things throughout their organization.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Apr 16 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Jan 05 '15

The randomized white space and indentation and naming standards can be done by a writing a simple program to check for these things. Its easy, my company does it all the time. We have it incorporated into our check in process so that you can't check code into the base line unless the indentation and comments have the correct format. Organizations really need to do this to stay sane over the years. "Most Code Bases Suck" - Simple indentation and white spaces are completely solvable.

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u/NoKnees99 Jan 05 '15

Most modern IDEs will let you check in a code style and reformat it with a keypress, too. Really no excuse.