Scripting languages are something that can be quite beneficial to developers when working on a team with multiple disciplines in it. But before we dive into what they are and how they work, and the pros and cons of using a scripting language, it's best to get a bit of a history lesson in terms of how code executes.
Learning when to use scripting in a game
Introduction to assembly
Underneath the hood, all the code that we have written over the course of this book is ones and zeroes indicating what switches should be marked as on and off by our computer's processor. Low-level programming languages such as machine language use these switches to execute commands. This was the only way to program to begin with, but we have developed more readable languages for...
