This page is a dumping ground for tips that might be too small to warrent their own page, or are just that plain and simple, or are just still half-baked.
Read Code
Read code, read code, and read more code. You'll pick up twice as many tricks reading good code than you ever will reading some lackys website. (Not that you should stop reading this!)
Never Repeat Yourself
If you see yourself copy and paste more than 3 lines of code, you should put it inside a new function.
What Does This Function Do?!?
At the beginning of every function, have a block comment explaining in full plain english what each parameter means, and what it returns. Include failure cases to test for and any other helpful info.
Protect Casts
When you convert one type into another smaller type (ie int to short), first use an assert to make sure you're not overflowing, unless that's ok.
#include <assert.h>
#include <limits.h>
int foo = 1000000;
assert(foo <= SHRT_MAX && foo >= SHRT_MIN);
short bar = (short) foo;
External Links
http://c-faq.com/index.html - comp.lang.c FAQ
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/CERT+C+Secure+Coding+Standard - CERT standard for secure coding in C
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html - A good tutorial on optimizing your code
http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/ - An entire book posted online for free
http://www.cppreference.com/
http://arcterex.ufies.org/c_notes.html
http://www.cprogramming.com/tips/
http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=205
http://www.nsftools.com/tips/CTips.htm
http://mycplus.blogspot.com/2008/03/top-programming-tips-for-c-programmers.html
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