Best practices are methods that have been demonstrated to be effective and can be replicable in other contexts.
“Quality is not an act; it is a habit” - Aristotle
It’s OK to build very complex software, but you don’t have to build it in a complicated way.
When working alone or in a team, it’s important to keep a consistent code style. And the easiest way is to automate it.
If you’re completely new in this area, this is the selection I would recommend. It’s important to note that if you have no programming experience or engineer background, these books would a bit hard to read.
Working with makefiles has a huge advantage over working on Eclipse.
This is a short introduction to Rakefiles.
I was working on a small project with a Texas Instruments microcontroller.
Debugging is hard work. It’s so hard that people expect that debugging will take 50% of the project time.
Developers think that the code should only compile and run. But they forget that humans will also read their code.