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My cousin said my code looked like "a ransom note" and I can't stop thinking about it
So my cousin came over last Saturday to help me set up a bookshelf, and while he was here he glanced at my laptop and asked what I was working on. I showed him my little weather app project, which took me about 3 weeks to get running, and he just stared at it for a second and said "why does your code look like a ransom note?" I laughed it off, but then he pointed at my variable names, and they're all over the place: x1, myVar, thing, temp2, cool_temp. I've been stringing bits together from YouTube videos and Stack Overflow answers for months without ever naming stuff in a way that makes sense to anyone but me. The dumb part is it did take me 3 weeks mostly because I kept forgetting what x1 even did. Now I'm going back through the whole project and renaming everything, and it's slow and boring but honestly eye opening. Did anyone else name their stuff terribly when they started, or was that just me?
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skylerw8711d ago
Rename things as you touch them instead of doing one big pass.
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