1. Good
Programming
Practices
Jack Boys

2. Topics
• Practice Try and Fail
• Breaking a Problem: Work In
team
• Be a coding Ninja
• ABC Always be coding
• Bug Debug and error
• Testing
• Conclusion

4. Practice Try and Fail
• Basic of programing: Write
Code on paper
• Improve your syntax
• Thinking are clear
• Improves Ability to remove a
bug or syntax error.
• Time your self
• Divide a task into subtask
• If stuck interview your self
• Ask a friend
• Don’t love your code

5. Breaking a Problem:
Work in Team
• Make team of at least 2
• Use flow charts flow diagram
to solve a problem
• Solve tough coding problem
in front of your team
• Admire one for asking and
for giving a solution
• Ask the team why we are
solving in certain way
• Discuss about alternate
solution
• In market you have to work
like a team

7. BE A CODING NINJA

8. Be a Coding Ninja
• Nail the programming
fundaments
• Write an attractive peace of
code
• Add handsome comment to your
code, Comment should be in
same level of code
• Commenting should be simple
that after a year when you
read your comment you can
understand what your code is
doing

9. Be a Coding Ninja
• Indent your code, it improve
readability
• Use switch statement instead
of if else if else
• Introduce functions in code
• Work think like a pro
• Use standard variable naming
i.e. Pascal casing and camel
casing
• Variable name should be
meaning full

10. Be a Coding ninja
• Every line of code should be
useful
• A method should be not more
than 30 lines
• Refactor your
code, eliminate useless code
• Make the variable private or
protected and expose public/
protected properties.

11. ABC: Always be coding
• Join programming society in
your institute
• Participate in programing
competition i.e.
online, inside outside
university
• Teach your junior it will
help you keeping your coding
saw sharped
• Programming is not something
you can master in a couple
of weeks. Set yourself a
realistic target of a month
and a half.

12. Bug Debug and error
• Your code should crash
gracefully and with honor
• Use try catch throw
technique its called
exception handling
• Exception handling will help
you finding the error
• Be a code snippiest you
should know why your code
have crash

13. Test your Program
• Test your program that it
gives the correct answer we
desired
• End user of your program are
dull so your code should be
flexible
• Give your code to your
friend for testing
• Test weather the way we
started to solve the problem
had we covered all of them.

14. Class Activity
Write down a c program which
prints your complete name in
the output screen, you have to
use If else statement. One
printf command will print your
first name while the second
will print your second. You
have to use If else statement.
You have to use GOOD
PROGRAMMING PRACTICE to break
this problem.
HINT: One printf will be
executed in checking of if
statment

15. Solution
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
void main()
{
if (!printf("Muhammadn")){}
else
printf("Iqbaln");
system("pause");
}