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Wow, I'm writing another tutorial for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. I hope that this tutorial will help like all my others did. In this tutorial, I will attempt to explain how to prevent bugs before they occur. How, you may ask? Well, I will explain to you bug preventing techniques like using Option Explicit, applying the KISS and SMILE principles, taking advantage of Object-Oriented Programming, using Comments and Coding Conventions, and following Coding Conventions by using Variable and Routine names and avoiding certain statements. I will also throw in what I call the Ten Commandments of being a Lazy Programmer. Is being a 'Lazy Programmer' good? Well, yes it is and you'll find that out soon enough! Maybe some of you are already 'Lazy Programmers'. So, without further eddo, lets begin!

When naming a control, it is recomended that you start the name with a three-letter prefix that helps you identify what kind of control you are referencing. For example, a form should be called frm1 instead of Form1. Also I've included one piece of code that everyone should include in their projects.