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Tip	Author	Rating (votes)	Added
Pointer arithmetic trickiness	vishesh jain	3.1860 (43)	2005-05-05 06:18:01
Goto vs. Higher-level control structures	Sean	2.8679 (106)	2005-05-03 16:23:45
match the out side world ideas to logical designin	mady	2.7162 (74)	2005-04-13 07:17:56
Avoid memory wastage	Arthi	2.7712 (118)	2005-04-06 04:47:31
Clever ways to avoid using if statements	A. Karthick Pandia Samy	3.4023 (87)	2005-03-31 01:41:58
take advantage of array indicies	Dave	2.7941 (102)	2005-03-28 20:53:47
Fastest raise to power.	Ezzetabi	3.0800 (100)	2005-03-18 16:31:04
char *pa; and char a[];	avdtech	2.6449 (276)	2005-03-14 19:00:25
Indent your Program	Prashant Sahay	2.4783 (23)	2005-03-10 00:47:46
Turn off optimization when debugging	Ashok Kumar	2.7083 (96)	2005-03-09 00:45:58
Use the Appropriate Variables	Mahesh Kumar.S	3.1111 (9)	2005-03-07 21:58:10
Pointer arithmetic hack	Vivek Ahlawat	3.4634 (41)	2005-03-07 02:09:20
Fast multiplication	Jean-François Geyelin	3.4731 (167)	2005-03-01 05:54:49
C++ new does not return 0 on failure!	Are R. Svendsen	3.4956 (226)	2005-02-27 21:38:01
beware of loop invarinats	Iain	2.9029 (103)	2005-02-27 14:43:27
Don't use strlen in a loop condition.	anonytmouse	3.6461 (178)	2005-02-10 20:34:50
String to integer	Mayur Avhad	2.9561 (205)	2005-02-08 23:55:27
assert() yourself!	Kevin Lam	3.7606 (284)	2005-02-07 12:12:10
Member Functions are inline by default (C++)	Ash	2.8684 (114)	2005-02-05 17:19:23
clean up after cin (C++)	Major_Small	3.3350 (206)	2005-01-30 02:25:49
Use templates to prevent memory leakage	Kunal	2.8862 (123)	2005-01-27 23:01:00
Write it out on paper	rakesh kumar	3.3020 (202)	2005-01-25 01:59:16
Do NOT always check for NULL! (C++)	Kevin Lam	3.0308 (130)	2005-01-24 16:44:13
Commenting out code with the preprocessor	Webmaster	2.8318 (107)	2005-01-24 14:16:39
Use <constant> == <value>	Webmaster	2.9208 (101)	2005-01-24 06:53:34
Turn on all compiler warnings	Maragato	2.9358 (109)	2005-01-19 20:44:14
Test pieces of your code early	Hardi Pertel	3.0522 (134)	2005-01-17 11:14:06
Don't use fflush(stdin)	Shakti	2.8496 (133)	2005-01-15 03:58:36
Put braces around if statement code, part 2	PING	2.5368 (95)	2005-01-14 21:11:28
Give Proper Names to Your Variables	Maragato	1.7143 (7)	2005-01-13 19:14:51
Doing calculations	Linuxguru	2.7324 (142)	2005-01-11 03:52:50
Converting numbers to Strings	Webmaster	3.5299 (234)	2005-01-02 11:20:35
Comment!	VOX	2.7010 (97)	2004-12-31 10:43:03
Use multiple files	Thantos	2.8362 (116)	2004-12-30 18:57:38
Make backups	Vox	3.1282 (117)	2004-12-30 07:58:06
Reuse Old Code	Timofei Gerasimov	3.0254 (118)	2004-12-29 00:00:00
getchar() returns an int	Rob	3.1024 (127)	2004-12-29 00:00:00
Use Good Variable And Function Names	prog-bman	3.1250 (120)	2004-12-29 00:00:00
Use STL containers instead of C arrays	Sang-drax	3.0833 (108)	2004-12-29 00:00:00
Executing system commands	Sean	2.9702 (168)	2004-12-29 00:00:00
Always check for NULL (in C)	Webmaster	2.8477 (151)	2004-12-29 00:00:00
Always write if statements with braces	Webmaster	3.7333 (270)	2004-12-29 00:00:00
think before you code	Timofei Gerasimov	3.3660 (153)	2004-12-29 00:00:00
Get a copy of the standard	Thantos	2.7600 (75)	2004-12-28 00:00:00
Avoid void main()	Webmaster	3.4049 (247)	2004-12-28 00:00:00
gets() is bad.	Sean	3.0602 (133)	2004-12-28 00:00:00

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