Naming Conventions

Naming Conventions are how we epic programmers capitalise and format our variables. We almost always use camel casing and hungarian notation is usually used with camel casing.

Hungarian Notation
Hungarian Notation is the use of prefixes on a variable name.

For example, for a text box in a Form for someones name, we can name it:

txtFirstName

This is also seen for data types, e.g. sName for strings, iAge for integers and fAverage for floats.

Camel Casing
Camel Casing is how we capitalise. The first word starts with lowercase and consecutive words start with a capital

thisIsReallyLongVariableName