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Java

Posted by colin Don
colin Don
946 Points

Helper Class to save and load

Is there any reason for creating a helper class to load and save Treets? We could easily have created those two methods in the Treet class. Is there any criteria to follow in deciding when to create a helper class?

1 Answer

Brendon Butler
Brendon Butler
4,254 Points
Brendon Butler
Brendon Butler
4,254 Points

Organization is key. It may not matter as much if you're making a very small program, but if you ever expand it or are making a larger program it would be a lot easier to read, debug, etc.

You could create a game like Minecraft for example, which has hundreds of classes using only one class. It would just be very messy, hard to debug and some simple tasks that could be done very easily using multiple classes would be much more difficult.