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These are all great tips but still won't help me figuring out how should I name my variable. Sometimes it's obvious but sometimes I struggle. I hope it isn't an

by rplnt 15y ago

These are all great tips but still won't help me figuring out how should I name my variable. Sometimes it's obvious but sometimes I struggle. I hope it isn't an indicator of bad code :)

riffraff 15y ago
obligatory: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton
- sp332 15y ago
  I like this version: "There are two hard things in CS: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
  - nazar 15y ago
    My students often miss 0 element of arrays.
DrJokepu 15y ago
In my experience if you're struggling with naming something (variable, function, class, etc.) in your code, it often indicates that you're not entirely sure about the role of that particular structure. When this happens to me, I ask myself: what is the role of this variable? What does this method do? If you can't figure that out sometimes that's indicating that it's time for refactoring.
MortenK 15y ago
Get the book "Code complete", it has a large section dedicated to this problem.