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Best Programming Habits and Practices


  1.  Write commented code
  2.  Plan before you code
  3.  Use a good Text editor. With highlight features. Some suggested Text editors for C programming are;
    CodeBlocks
    NetBeans
    Eclipse
  4. Use version controlling like GitHub 
What's the text editor of your choice? Share in comments. 

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