Meaning Full Names

Use Intention-Revealing Names

Do not refer to a grouping of accounts as an accountList unless it’s actually a List . Because List as a different intent.

Do not use Lower case L and Upper Case O especially in combination

Make Meaningful Distinctions

Do not Use like this the truly hideous practice of creating a variable named klass just because the name class was used for something else.

Use Pronounceable Names

Use Searchable Names

single-letter names can ONLY be used as local variables inside short methods.

Avoid Encodings:

do not use encoding names because they are not esay to pronounceable.

Do not use Hungarian Notations

don’t need to prefix member variables with m_ anymore.

Do not write IshapeFactory and CshapeFactory we no need to tell which is interface and class.

Avoid Mental Mapping:

do not take like this using the name c than because a and b were already taken.

single-letter names for loop counters are traditional.

Classes and objects should have noun or noun phrase names like Customer.

Methods should have verb or verb phrase names like postPayment , deletePage.

don’t use the name whack() to mean kill() .

Pick One Word per Concept:

add method performs add a value to the list and also add two numbers. Do not write like this.

Don’t Pun

Avoid using the same word for two purposes

Use Solution Domain Names

use computer science (CS) terms, algorithm names, pattern names, math terms, and so forth.

Use Problem Domain Names

Separating solution and problem domain concepts is part of the job of a good programmer and designer.

Add Meaningful Context

Imagine that you have variables named firstName , lastName , street , houseNumber , city , state , and zip code instead of this take like this addrFirstName , addrLastName , addrState , and so on.

Don’t Add Gratuitous Context

If I need to differentiate between MAC addresses, port addresses, and Web addresses, I might consider PostalAddress , MAC , and URI.