Chapter 4. Code Comfort

We've reached the precipice: we're staring at a game that doesn't do much and won't do much more unless we write some code. If you're brand new to this stuff, code is scary—or, rather, the idea of code is scary. Will you have to type a bunch of ones and zeroes or cryptic punctuation along thousands of monotonous line numbers? If you've ever tried developing a game or if you've ever been taught to program using some ancient language in a high school computer course, code might have been the thing to undo you. But, here you are giving it one more crack at the bat. The world needs a three-dimensional keep-up game, by gum! It's time to show the world what you're made of.

What is code?

Code is just a series of instructions that ...

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