Jun
29
Naming conventions
Naming conventions. You bump into them every single minute of the day. Naming new directories in your project folder, naming new tables in your database, ... Recently, the issue of naming convention came more to the foreground for me as I'm trying to write a ruby API to one of our databases (see later).
Two of the most-often-encountered naming schemes are CamelCase (ThisIsACamelCaseString) and snake_case (this_is_a_snake_case_string). And in the case of CamelCase: do you make the very first letter a capital or not? If I'm not mistaken, variables in java are often CamelCase, except the first letter (thisCouldBeAJavaVariable).
When thinking of names for directories and files (read also "Organizing yourself as a dry-lab scientist" on BioinformaticsZen), i.e.
Two of the most-often-encountered naming schemes are CamelCase (ThisIsACamelCaseString) and snake_case (this_is_a_snake_case_string). And in the case of CamelCase: do you make the very first letter a capital or not? If I'm not mistaken, variables in java are often CamelCase, except the first letter (thisCouldBeAJavaVariable).
When thinking of names for directories and files (read also "Organizing yourself as a dry-lab scientist" on BioinformaticsZen), i.e.
