Naming Things 🤔

A book that provides practical and comprehensive principles and rules for efficiently choosing good names in your code

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@8koi2 If you want even more guidance on naming functions and variables, there's a whole book on it! https://t.co/FvLbTxjozo

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@elfsternberg If you still need it, the book is now available! https://t.co/FvLbTxjozo

It took a while, but thankfully naming is a relatively timeless topic 😀

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@stopachka An essay isn't sufficient to handle complexity of this magnitude 😀, so I wrote a book on it! It was just published: https://t.co/FvLbTxjozo

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The "Naming Things" book is now available on Amazon and Leanpub! It solves one of the most enduring challenges in software engineering by providing practical principles and rules for naming classes, variables, functions and other identifiers in your code.

https://t.co/FvLbTxjozo

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"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do" — Donald Knuth

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When you try to choose a meaningful variable name https://t.co/XlGlL3zX5p

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The 7 principles of naming https://t.co/NR9HKBpyMx

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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton https://t.co/pLD4NanWZP

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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman https://t.co/pLD4NanWZP

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Your code is for a human first and a computer second. Humans need good names. — @martinfowler https://t.co/pLD4NanWZP

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Why we need a book about naming things in software engineering: https://t.co/Fpb2Zdr7Gs