According to the announcement, the 15-week introductory course will feature practice labs, student projects and multimedia-driven lessons and will complement other VHS programming courses focusing ...

Why follow defensive programming best practice when code will never be public? If you're designing a card game that only you will see, maybe it's ok to be lenient.

I would say that it is a good practice to use .ConfigureAwait(false) unless you have a specific reason to not use it. I would discuss more on asynchronous programming in my future blog posts here.

Risser asked:. So, we've got a guy who likes to write methods that take Objects as parameters, so they can be 'very flexible.' Then, internally, he either does direct casting, reflection, or ...