C Primer Plus (5th Edition)

Because programming is a creative process that involves human intuition and judgment, it is difficult to prescribe an exact procedure to follow when developing software. Fortunately, many useful techniques and principles have evolved over the past 50-odd years that are followed by most developers to write better programs with fewer errors in a shorter amount of time. These techniques, some of which are briefly presented in the next section, are valid for most high-level languages, including C#.