Wednesday - Naming Strategies

In addition to numbering files sensibly (01 or even 001 instead of just 1), it is important to have a strategy for creating a single name built from more than one word. Because spaces are often used to separate terms in computer coding, we don't want to have spaces in any of our naming conventions. There are a handful of basic options to get around using spaces:

• camelCase
• PascalCase
• kebab-case
• snake_case

I'm sure there are others out there, but these are the main 4 options. In the first two options you will rely on capitalization to indicate a change in words without using spaces; in the third choice a hyphen separates the words, and in the fourth choice an underscore separates the words. Of these 4 options, snake_case is the easist to actually read, so that's what I encourage you to use in your naming strategy.