Tag: class

Structuring libraries, basic design tips.

Posted by GuShH on August 28, 2009

One of the most important things a programmer has to know and learn is proper code design, structuring of the code, etc. This may not be imperative for you if you’re just starting out, but sooner or later you’ll be able to spot the patterns and realize that your current way of doing things is not optimal but rather cumbersome. This is when you start to separate things into modules and you begin to design your code with more meaning and purpose.

By breaking your code into modules or “classes” you can have a finer granularity of the code itself, you can encapsulate the base code and work on top of it, you can also reuse the code in other projects if you have a good design. An example would be a log library (for logging useful debugging information onto text files) with proper design and care you’ll be able to use the same library in almost all of your projects with little to no modification at all.
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An efficient and simple object factory for PureBasic

Posted by GuShH on May 3, 2009

Whenever you deal with structures and what have you it’s obvious that there has to be a better way of doing it. Think about it, you encapsulate your structure-related code in such a way that it becomes clean, nice and tidy — in other words it makes it easy to understand what it does.

However in essence, you end up writing pretty much the same allocate / deallocate, list, etc. code every time you incorporate a new “class” into your project. Why should we?, let’s avoid it all together and focus our efforts in the task at hand rather than in the mundane stuff.

If you open your eyes you’ll see that this is an obvious pattern but what isn’t so obvious is how do you implement a template that deals with it in an efficient and clean way within the current constraints of the language.

Well… Have no fear, EasyObject is here!
First, download it. Secondly, embrace it.

Third, you’re free to post any comments regarding on how to enhance it if you dear to!.

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