Computing

Programming Principles

General

• Keep code and data strictly separate.
  • Be aware of whether your programming creates executable content.
• When using random number generators, seed them explicitly to keep your results reproducible.

Debugging

• Computers are deterministic machines. All bugs can be reproduced.

Object Oriented Programming

• An instance in a computing process must represent exactly one instance in the modelling domain.
• Use random number generator objects where possible.

Databases

• Identification and description must be kept separate.
  • Primary keys should be generated where reasonably possible.