Of course, a chap can’t expect to become a thorough backwoodsman all at once without learning some of the difficult arts and practices that the backwoodsman uses. If you study this book you will find tips in it showing you how to do them—and in this way you can learn for yourself instead of having a teacher to show you how.—Lord Baden-Powell, the Foreword in Scouting for Boys (1908), found on the Internet.
T his chapter is a list of programming tips I have collected over the years. The most important tip is to read other people’s code, especially well-written code.
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