Discussion on: Do you have a process for naming things?

[Jonathan Kuhl]

Functions:

• How succinctly can I describe what the function does? Can I make this succinct function its name? Here's a function that fetches football scores off ESPN:

async function fetchScores() {
    const scores = await fetch(urlToEspn);
    return scores;
}

See? Does what the name says.

Variables:

• What does this variable hold? const person = new Person() Gee, i wonder what person is.

Objects

• What it is, and first letter of the type is capitalized, always.

Methods of objects:

• avoid naming the object in the function, example filereader.readfile(). I know that it comes off the file reader object, so naming the method readfile is redundant. read() is fine. filereader.read()