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Best Coding Tools for High School Students

Real Programming

Programmers use coding tools to help them debug, test, and create software. Let’s look at a few of the best coding tools for high school students to see how RP4K’s older pupils get a leg up. One keystroke will behave differently depending on the coding language used, like language-specific shortcuts.

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How is code documented in AAA games? They just put comments/summaries above the fields names explaining what it does, or they use separate programs that contains all scripts/systems documentation?

Ask a Game Dev

For brand new games, the best we usually do is in-game comments and maybe some auto-documentation because we're writing a lot of new code as we go and time spent documenting is time not spent writing more code. It really depends on the project. For established franchises and lifestyle games (e.g.

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Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development 

iXie gaming

This game engine requires minimal coding knowledge to build mobile games – instead, it offers a visual scripting system and supports third-party solutions such as Bolt. This enables developers to create game logic without extensive coding experience. Minimal Coding Mobile game development is often a code-intensive process.

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Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

Initializing class member variables can be quite of a hassle, code such as this is common in GDScript: The 'onready' keyword allows initialization of class member variables at the same time when _ready is called, saving some code: But doing this for autoloaded scenes can still be a hassle, as it has to be done every time a script is created.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Multi window code editors by trollodel. Multi window code editors. Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. Detaching the Script editor and the Shader editor is done for the most part.

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C# progress report: Visual Studio and VSCode

Mircosoft Game Dev

Today I'm announcing two new extensions for other editors: Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. The two extensions support debugging of Godot games. They make it easy to launch and debug games from the IDE without the need to tweak any Godot setting. Code completion. This work was kindly sponsored by Microsoft.

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HTML5 export profiling for Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

Hello Godotters, as part of my October work (sponsored, as always, by Mozilla ) I've been working on getting the script debugger and profiler to work with HTML5 exports. The following section is a brief technical excursus on the internals of godot debugging and profiling. Debugger Connection.

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