Readability & Understandability

Sometimes it can be tricky to get the computer to do exactly what you want, and it's a great victory when things finally work. It's tempting to move on to the next task at hand, but often it's better to look back and improve some things.

In this episode Sybren shows some techniques to reorganise code, with the aim of improving the readability & understandability.

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:12 Investigating the Camera Background Image panel code
• 02:31 Splitting the code that handles an image into a function
• 05:30 A little analysis of the loop
• 06:11 Splitting up the code further into functions
• 07:44 The has_bg mystery and the final flattening
• 13:55 Cognitive Complexity
• 15:00 Conclusion

This video was made using Blender 3.0 alpha.