Posts Tagged “coding style”
A girl at work asked me yesterday about whether or not encoding a variable’s type into its name — aka Hungarian Notation — was a good idea (she’s a designer who secretly wants to be a developer). I thought I might have written an article here before about it, but it seems I haven’t, so [...]
Traditionally, it’s always been standard practice for programmers to wrap long lines of code so they don’t span more than 80 characters across the screen. This is because, back in the bad old days, most computer terminals could only display 25 rows of 80 columns of text on screen at once. Any lines that were [...]
When prototyping new code I often leave a web browser with thesaurus.com open in the background. It may sound pedantic, but I sometimes find it very useful when deciding what name to use for a class, or what verb to use for a method name. Well-versed code is easy to understand; each class’s name defines [...]
Coding conventions and style is probably programmers’ most fiercely-contested topic, and also the least-important. At the end of the day, as long as the compiler can read your code, and you can read your code, you’re fine. But consistency is good, so many organisations have rules on what their code should look like. These rules [...]
