It's after dinner RL time. We just had some nice sausages and fresh veggies out on the deck. In a while, we'll have watermelon for dessert. Meanwhile, I'll start the next article. In this one, I'm planning to find a leg abstraction. At the end of the last section, we had noticed that some of... Continue Reading →
Refactoring VI: How Many Roman Numerals Do I Know?
Here I am sitting in one of our cozy spots in Lexicolo, reading a book before starting this article. I'm hoping to finish up this time ... will I? When last we visited our intrepid heroine, she had just rewritten the test for step2 and made it work by reordering the actions to be consistent... Continue Reading →
Refactoring V: Will This Never End?
Here I am in my sky bedroom, getting ready for a dance date. Now that I'm all cleaned up, I've got a little time to do some more work. Let's see what happens. After my break, I'd like to pick up where I left off. In this case, I can do it by looking... Continue Reading →
Refactoring IV: Let’s Improve the Code
Here I am, sitting at my favorite table at Rossini's, on the roof of the train station in Lexicolo. While I wait for the incredibly slow service, I'm going to start improving the code in Dizzi's leg animation script. (I hasten to add that her original code is just fine, really. No offense intended to... Continue Reading →
More Comments on Comments
I was reviewing the blog yesterday and looked at my Comments on Comments article. As often happens when you revisit code after a while, I think I can do better. So let's give it a try. Here I am standing in Kuula with my trusty rotating cube. Here's our program as we left it last... Continue Reading →