I tried posting on main sub but it got instantly removed. If these are bots, is Riot trying to hide that the game has a botting problem?
I'm a hobbyist game developer. I've seen lots of resources go over SOLID principles, DRY, etc., and I've used design patterns such as the strategy, listener, singleton, and factory patterns in my game projects. Unit testing wasn't something I really did for my games though. I wrote unit tests for full-stack projects, but I always assumed that the code in games were too coupled with the UI to be reliably tested with unit tests, so I didn't write unit tests for my game projects.
I recently learned about the Functional Core, Imperative Shell pattern from an dev conference recording on YouTube. It made a lot of sense to me, and I started applying it to my personal projects. I like how separating the side effects from the logic and pushing them to the edge of the functions make the code more easily testable, and I feel like it would have helped a lot if I knew about it earlier. It felt like a "aha" moment similar to when I learned how to use interfaces correctly.
When I first started game dev and didn't know how to properly use interfaces, my games had large functions with a bunch of nested if-else statements to handle user input every frame. Learning about interfaces and the strategy pattern helped me break down the code into smaller, more focused parts. Interfaces were a big improvement, and the functional core, imperative shell pattern felt like another big improvement.
I don't think I've seen any beginner resources talk about the this pattern until I came across the conference recording in my YouTube recommendations, and I very easily could have missed learning about it if I didn't watch it. I'm sure there's a lot of other important patterns that could help me if I just knew about them, so I wanted to ask what other patterns y'all know of that aren't as widely taught?
Outside of the subjects you learn in a CS degree like data structures, algorithms, etc., what made you a better engineer in your day-to-day work?
I read online software engineering was a career path for math majors because a math education developed good problem-solving skills, so I started thinking about what other subjects makes someone a better software engineer.
Looking for answers related to technical skills more than soft skills.
I played a game in plat where my top laner went 2/18. He was intentionally feeding on a lv 45 account with only 5 ranked games total. I don't understand why a new account is even in this elo. Their match history on opgg showed that they lost 4 out of 5 games, but the average tier of their game went from gold 1 to platinum 3. Shouldn't the matchmaking put them against lower rank lobbies instead of higher rank?
It's frustrates me that whoever this person is will never face any real consequences because it's likely a throwaway and not their main account.
Still employed because I work for a consulting firm, but I moved here for nothing