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Naming Things

04 Tuesday Mar 2014

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in CS101

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computer programmers, computer programming, function names, readable code, variable names

One of the things that programmers do a bazillion times during their career is come up with a name for something. Every variable, every sub-routine, every class, every method, every instance, even the program itself and all its supporting files: they all need names. In some cases the naming is obvious and easy, but in others it’s complicated. You can end up creating a big ball of mud if go about it casually.

So one thing you want to start doing is being intentional about naming things.

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