Lab Guidelines

While we encourage you to explore the vast array of principles, guidelines and refactoring techniques that exist out there, you should at the very least always deliberately attempt to consider the following:

• Low coupling, high cohesion.
• The SOLID design principles.
• The Design Patterns in Head First: Design Patterns.

Further, you should of course always exercise basic "housekeeping" of your code:

• Indent properly.
• Be consistent in the "style" you write code (e.g. whitespace, cuddled curly-brackets, etc.).
• Use sensible variable names.
• Never leave old commented code.
• Never leave "dead" code.
• Never hand in code with failing tests.
• Never hand in broken code.