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Bit of history for you first - C was invented inside the 70s by Dennis Ritchie, by the 80s it had become quite popular along with a book (known as the C programming language) was published by Ritchie and Kernighan which acted as an informal standard (known as K&R C.) Throughout the 80s ANSI were working towards a formal standard, which appeared in 1989 called C89. Some finetuning was done in 1990 and a new standard, C90 was published.   
   
All good - until 1999, when another version of the standard was published, called C99. Why is this a problem? Well whilst compilers implement C90, none implement the whole of the C99 standard. You, may well be thinking that C99 isn't all that important then - wrong, C99 allows us to do things such as declare variables throughout the code and use the C++ (//) style comment... but whilst many compilers do support these, none promise to support all aspects of the standard. I have often wondered why.   
   
As an aside, there is some work towards a new standard, not sure if/when it will be released though - its informally called "C1x"

Sorry to post this mundane question here, but I need help!   
   
I have to do a 1 hour Software Best Practices Training for some   
programmers in my company.  Audience are Freshers to couple of years   
experience guys.   
   
Can you guys please suggest some relevant topics I can cover?   
   
I could think of the following:   
   
1)  Importance of following coding standards, indentation   
2)  Proper naming of files, variables, functions, classes, tables.,   
columns, views and all other artifacts   
3)  Layer your application - each layer must address a specific   
concern   
4)  Abstract common stuff into reusable utility classes   
   
Any help will be greatly appreciated   
(A positive response  to this post & I promise I will contribute to   
the community by replying to at least 10 threads!)