Programming Advice
Author: Eddie Meyer
Version: 1.0.2
Date: 6th March 2006
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
This is probably the best advice anyone can give you. Keep your program designs as simple as possible. You will be glad you followed this advice when you find that you have to make another update after several months have passed. And believe me -- If your program is of any use whatsoever, you will be returning to it at some time to make some kind of enhancement or bug fix.
Program Defensively
Check for error conditions in your programs. Although it will add to the length of your source code, it will result in much more robust programs. This is just one of the topics covered in The Pragmatic Programmer. A motto I try to keep in mind for my own programming work is, "If it CAN happen, it WILL". This motto makes me deal with lots of little 'unlikely' scenarios at the time of my programming effort. So far, my experience has been that fewer issues have risen during testing and fewer bugs have been found after my code has been released.
Copyright © 2006 Eddie Meyer