The Naming Conventions you MUST Know when Coding

camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case and kebab case. What?

Steven Curtis
3 min readFeb 5, 2020

You might be aware that there are naming conventions in your chosen programming language.

Perhaps you should be aware of this: it helps to make your code readable and understandable. Plus will help you get through code reviews…

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

Prerequisites:

  • None, but for practical purposes it would be useful to be able to produce a “Hello, World!” application in your chosen programming language

Terminology

Hyphen: The — character

Brochette-case: A naming convention where the name is formed of multiple words joined as a single word separated by _, but the first letter of each word is capitalized. The first letter is usually in upper case

Kebab case: A naming convention where the name is formed of multiple words joined as a single word separated by _, but the first letter of each word is capitalized. The first letter is usually in upper case

lowerCamelCase: A naming convention where the name is formed of multiple words joined as a single word, but the first letter of each word is capitalized…

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