I'm not sure what inspired me to code for entertainment after a year and a half of nothing. I suppose it doesn't really matter, though. What is important is that I coded for many hours this weekend. It felt good to get back into the swing of it.
I went back to my silly SneakOut text adventure game. The game is not particularly brilliant, but I think its a good exercise for me to finish it. Anyway, looking back on that code, man, was it horrible.
I've been doing some programming for work over the last couple of months, and by that I mean code that people actually look at and give feedback on, and that has improved my understanding dramatically. So, when looking at what I had written on my own 18 months ago, it was surprising at how mismanaged everything was.
Therefore, I spent all my time refactoring the old code into something more sleek and understandable. Instead of several huge classes, things are becoming broken out into bite sized chunks and I think I am eliminating some unnecessary repetitive code as well.
Anywho, I have no idea if I will continue this coding routine, but if i do, i'll make sure to keep blogging for my future self to look at fondly.
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