Longest program you have written?

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#1

In terms of lines of code, what is the longest program you have ever wrote? My longest program was Project Raft standing at a tiny tiny 1900 line of code. I plan on blowing that away though because Zombie Nauts is already to 1702 lines of code and im about 5% done with that game. So, what is the longest program you have ever written?

#2

Not sure, somewhere in the 50k-100k range. The code tends to be more expressive the longer you’ve programmed though, meaning the LOC to feature ratio decreases significantly. I remember back when I was somewhat fresh at programming - I could easily spew out 2-3k LOC per day; I rarely write more than 500-700 on a good day now, yet I manage to implement a lot more functionality in that same timeframe nowadays.

In the end, LOC isn’t really a useful metric of anything - even if some backward companies encourage such nonsense.

#3

I did never count and will not.

#4

I disagree. The more you’ve already programmed the more utilities and abstraction you (should) have, meaning that with a good design you should be able to reuse bits and pieces of your code leading to a higher feature/LOC ratio. :slight_smile:

Edit: Just to answer the topic - around 2000 LOC, which was (obviously ;D) a game engine. Dang, I have to stop making engines and start producing some games now. :smiley:

#5

Decreasing LOC/feature == increasing feature/LOC :point:

#6

Squaball might have been a little bit less than 10k.
Wilderness to home is over 10k probably.

Maybe I’m over counting a little.

#7

Oops, you’re right, my bad. :slight_smile:

#8

How does one figure this out? Add up the line number of the last line in every class?
My current project is by far my biggest though.

#9

There are some things called metrics or something like that. I installed one sometime ago.

#10

Bill gates: measuring code by number of lines is the same as measuring an airplane by weight.

#11

Heh, I got a little 2D space shooter that I work on every so often.

The Ship class is ridiculous, tons of fields and methods. Must be around 1500 lines just for that class. Not a whole lot but it is one, non-refactored class lol.

#12

:o I thought I was cool with FlubberSpace being the biggest and only project I’ve ever made.(Only good one that is :point:). It has about 670.

#13

Ok, so I installed Metrics.

It’s telling me:
Total Lines of Code = 3190
Method Lines of Code = 1983

Does that mean almost 40% of the lines is fluff, just formatting and stuff?

#14

My largest project ever is my current, Retro-Pixel Castles.

Total lines of code as of today: 6,787

but kinda like junkdog said, lines of code really are only a hint at complexity, but really someone could have a 5k lines program someone else can write in 500. Personally I feel my code is fairly fluff free. Although there’s a few places where I could probably shave off a few lines.

Also coding style comes into play, for example I write all my one-liner getters and setters like this:

	//Get total height and width of map in tiles.
	public int getMapWidth(){return map.getMapWidth();}
	public int getMapHeight(){return map.getMapHeight();}

where as someone could easily write them like this:

	//Get total height and width of map in tiles.
	public int getMapWidth(){
		return map.getMapWidth();
	}

	public int getMapHeight(){
		return map.getMapHeight();
	}

or even (if they’re C people who picked up this habit):

	public int getMapWidth()
	{
		return map.getMapWidth();
	}

	public int getMapHeight()
	{
		return map.getMapHeight();
	}

So I think style can add/remove a lot of lines. :stuck_out_tongue:

#15

I’m more impressed by less lines of code.

Let’s see some smaller numbers. :smiley:

  • Jev
#16 
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	public static void main() {
		System.out.println("ohai world!");
	}
}
#17

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  • Jev
#18

MERCury is currently at around 10K LOC.

But these numbers don’t mean too much. If anything, they loosely represent how long you have worked on this project.

-wes

#19

I recently stumbled upon this self-playing flappy bird clone in 155 lines, incl graphics: http://glsl.heroku.com/e#14407.0

#20

That would make for a fun java game jam/contest. Instead of “under 4k”, “in 48 hours”, etc, we could have a “best game with less than 500 lines of code” contest. It would have to include external settings/config files so no one cheats and stuffs all the meat into a .properties file or something.

Could be a fun idea down the road.