Coding best practices: Difference between revisions

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== Design ==

Even if you feel great about knowing the architecture of your target platform without a good design you are going to be sunk. Try not to fall into the trap though of over-designing the application - a common saying is 'dont bite off more than you can chew' and it makes sense here too. The two basic principles are to "Keep it Simple" and to utilize information hiding (Dont show the user more than they need to see). Often this is where [[OO Analysis]] and [[Unified Modeling Language|UML]] comes in. Do a Google search on UML and you'll find dozens of articles on using it.<ref name="bcp"/>

== Code Building ==