There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things -- Phil Karlton
Naming convention is a set of rules for choosing the character sequence to be used for identifiers which denote variables, types, functions, and other entities in source code and documentation.
Reasons for using a naming convention (as opposed to allowing programmers to choose any character sequence) include the following:
- To reduce the effort needed to read and understand source code;
- To enable code reviews to focus on more important issues than arguing over syntax and naming standards.
- To enable code quality review tools to focus their reporting mainly on significant issues other than syntax and style preferences.
- C# Coding Standards and Naming Conventions
- Git Comment Convention
- JavaScript Name and Coding Conventions
- Powershell name convention
- R style guide and name convention
- SQL Server Name Convention and T-SQL Programming Style
- PEP 8 — the Style Guide for Python Code
- PHP Standards Recommendations
- NET Naming Guidelines
- Framework Design Guidelines
- Google style guides for open source projects
- Google R Style Guide
- Google Python Style Guide
- Google C++ Style Guide
- Google HTML/CSS Style Guide
- Google Java Style Guide
- Google JavaScript Style Guide
- Google JSON Style Guide
- Google Common Lisp Style Guide
- Google Objective-C Style Guide
- Google Shell Style Guide
- Google Vimscript Guide
- Google XML Document Format Style Guide
- An AngularJS Style Guide for Closure Users at Google
- Powershell Cmdlet Development Guidelines
- Approved Verbs for PowerShell Commands
- The PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide
- PostgreSQL naming conventions
- Lint commit messages
- Comprehensive language-agnostic guidelines on naming variables
- SEI CERT Coding Standards
- SQL Style Guide
- Microsoft C# Coding Conventions
- Coding Guidelines for C#
- JavaScript
- Sensible CSS Guidelines
- Gamemakin Unreal Engine 4 Style Guide
- Airbnb Swift Style Guide
- Awesome Naming - A curated list for when naming things
- JetBrains JSON standard for documenting web component libraries for IDEs, documentation generators and other tools
- Microsoft REST API Guidelines
- Data Import Best Practices in Power BI (by Marco Russo)
- Naming temporary columns in DAX (by Marco Russo, Alberto Ferrari)
- Python functions naming: 10 tips (by Ilya Lebedev)
- Conventional Commits
- conventional: comments - Comments that are easy to grok and grep (by Paul Slaughter)
- Google Engineering Practices Documentation