Learning Objectives:

This lecture is about writing code that other people will be able to understand, reuse, and modify. We’ve distilled this down to five general program-design princples.

By the end of this lesson you should be able to:

• Describe the purpose of our design principles
• List 5 code-level design principles with examples
• Identify some violations of the principles and suggest ways to mitigate them

Important Dates:

• Individual Project Deliverable 1 Due Wednesday, Jan 25 by 11am

Lecture Slides:

• General Program Design Principles Slides PDF, PPT

Activities:

• Traffic Light Activity

Resources

• Code Examples from Lecture (zip file)