avoiding if statements

Question

I was thinking about object oriented design today, and I was wondering if you should avoid if statements. My thought is that in any case where you require an if statement you ca

Answer 1

I can tell you one thing. No matter what people say, thinking about simplifying and eliminating unnecessary branching is a sign of you maturing as a software developer. There are many reasons why branching is bad, testing, maintenance, higher rate of bugs and so on. This is one of the things I look for when interviewing people and is an excellent indicator how mature they are as a developer. I would encourage you to keep experimenting, simplifying your code and design by using less conditions. When I did this switch I found much less time debugging my code, it simply worked, then when I had to change something, changes were super easy to make since most of the code was sequential. Again I would encourage you 100% to keep doing what you are doing no matter what other people say. Keep in mind most developers are working and thinking at much lower level and just follow the rules. So good job bringing this up.