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Programming Lessons Learned from Online Casinos

I personally know a lot of programmers who themselves aren’t fans of any kind of gaming, simply because their minds just go on this trip into the behind-the-scenes code that makes the gaming platforms they’re presented with work. They start thinking about rather spending their time doing some coding and programming of their own, which leads us into the first programming lesson learned from online casinos in particular.

Not re-inventing the wheel

For everybody else and in fact for some programmers who can separate their work from their downtime activities, online casinos are indeed a favourite platform for gaming, mostly because it’s not just gaming for pure fun. You actually stand a chance to win something and the programming lesson to take away here is that you don’t have to re-invent the wheel.

The youngest casinos coming online usually feature a selection of casino slots games and others that seasoned bettors have long since become accustomed to, so the likes of gaming engines are deployed. The unique defining factor then becomes about what the casino offers to stand out from the crowd, like the amount of money one can actually win and the overall odds of winning.

Security

Online casino platforms perhaps teach the best lesson in cyber security, because I mean when was the last time you heard of a casino being hacked, robbed or cheated by some players with insider info or something like that? Often the security just comes from running the latest updates on the gaming engines as well as integrating secure payment gateways for the funding of and withdrawal from players’ accounts. For instance, Rizk Casino supports Skrill, Neteller, MasterCard, Visa, Paysafecard and direct bank wire, which are payment gateways whose security is managed by those gateways themselves, so less to worry about for the core team of programmers, engineers and cyber security experts.

Getting the core functionality right

This is the base on which any application would be built, because at the end of the day there’s a specific problem you want your programmatic solution so solve. There are no two ways about it – you need to get the basic functionality right, which in the case of online casinos is an integrated platform which appears to be greater than the sum of its parts.

Platform extensibility

The mentioned online casino platform also delivers a key lesson in the importance of extensibility, whether in the source code itself or just as a consideration of how the platform works. In this particular instance the example is that of how deposit bonuses are applied to the credit new gamers fund their accounts with.

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