Welcome to our captivating session on refactoring, a powerful tool for tidying up code, much like you would organize a messy toy box or find a faster route to school.
Each line of code is as essential as a brick in a building; clumsy code may result in an unstable structure. Today, we'll focus on enhancing the readability, maintainability, and performance of our code through refactoring.
Let's briefly revisit a few key concepts:
- Code Smells: Indicators that our code needs refactoring, akin to clutter calling for cleanup.
- Refactoring Techniques: We've familiarized ourselves with
Extract Method
,Rename Method
, andSubstitute Algorithm
techniques in earlier lessons. - OOP in Refactoring: We've learned how to leverage Object-Oriented Programming principles to enhance our code's structure.
- Code Decoupling and Modularization: Methods to make code easier to manage by minimizing dependencies.
We'll use these concepts as guiding stars as we traverse the cosmos of refactoring.
We'll start with rewriting a complex game score computation function. Let's look at it:
