As a beginning programmer, I’m trying to settle on a standard naming convention for myself. I realize that it’s personal preference, but I was trying to get some ideas from some of you (well a LOT of you) who are much smarter than myself.
I’m not talking about camel notation but rather how do you name your variables, etc. IMHO, var_Quantity is much more descriptive than Q or varQ. However, how do you keep the variable from becoming too long. I’ve tried to be more descriptive with naming my controls, but I’ve ended up with some like ‘rtxtboxAddrLine1’ for a RadTextBox that holds address line 1. Too me,that is unmanageable, although it’s pretty clear what that control is.
I’m just curious if you have some guides that you follow or am I left up to my own devices?
Some basic rules can be found here. And much more extended rules can be found here. These are the official guidelines from the Microsoft framework designers.
As for your example, the variable should should be called simply
quantity.