ð  Draw a schematic of your circuit before you begin.

ð  You are provided a kit with jumper wire of various lengths - use the correct one for the application.

ð  Avoid the excessive use of jumper wire. Murphy say the more wire you use, the more likely you are to make an error by shorting two wires or incorrectly wiring the circuit.

ð  Keep jumper wire as short as possible. A mess of long wires make crazy arches over each other. In addition to the fact that they act as antennas (more on this later), they

      complicate your design and make it much more difficult to debug.

ð  Keep related components together as much as possible. This could make it easier to spot errors.

ð  Keep the wiring neat; this helps avoid shorting and makes it easier to debug.

ð  Make the circuit on the breadboard look as much as possible like the schematic you are implementing (item 1 above). The visual correspondence will help you differentiate

      the various nodes and, once again, help in debugging.