Some Experiences on Big Project

Principle1: do NOT give more than necessary access permissions, for example:
1. define variables used exclusively in only one function as local;
2. define variables used exclusively in only one file as static;
3. declare read only argument as const *;

Principle2: tag code snippet according to its semantics;
1. declare all global variables with a tag like GLOBAL, so that you can list them;
2. use static_cast instead of forced type conversion;

Principle3: locality in SE:
1. gather all operations on some type of object in one or two files;