The next thing you have to do, is at naming rules that are popular for the language that you are writing in. My C++ code for instnace, will look different than something for Python obviously (PEP8 is a nice …

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I've been programming in Java, C#, Python and AS3 most of the time and in all of these languages there are packages (or something like that). The problem I found is with the naming convention, or even …

Naming things is one of the famous three hard problems. Just as names of files are part of the user interface, and so should not contain characters like U+0004 or nonbreaking spaces, names of …

Oct 21, 2021 · There are two conventions in Python for naming a method which is not intended to be called by the clients of your class: a single _ as a soft mechanism, and __ as a slightly-less-soft …

Is there any most common convention for capitalization that I should know about? C++ is based on C, which is old enough to have developed a whole bunch of naming conventions by the time C++ was …

When programming, what naming conventions do you use for your variables? I don't mean when the name of the variable should be obvious; ie. sum, total, first, last. But when you name variables that ...

PEP8 recommends using lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability for variable and function names. I've seen this interpreted as …

In OOP coding, there is a long standing naming convention to name accessor/mutator methods getThing and setThing. These directly manipulate the properties, which are often private. Should these naming …

1 It depends on the programming language. Underscores are the preferred naming convention in Python. Camel case is the preferred convention in C#.