How to rock: First tips

After working for some time collaborating with open source/free software projects, I started to help newcomers to contribute and push the development further with good practices.

This post will try to itemize some important tips that can be used for software collaboration and personal projects, hopefully it'll help you to have a solid ground of good practices and advices for your contributions in a project. It contains information abut good code practices, a simple guide of helpful API design, code organization, comments, naming variables, development flow and self-criticism. Please enjoy, and any feedback (including critics) is much appreciated!

Code practices

Development flow

Final comment

This is the first post of a series that I'm planning to do. Hope that some of these points may help you in your journey.

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