For any highly complex area, standards must be established to facilitate the review and improvement process of these activities. In computer science, these standards define the area of ??software engineering, always seeking to make codes cleaner, more manageable and closer to the needs of the real world.

One of the most powerful tools used by companies around the world for this purpose are Naming Conventions. These conventions define how to name any variables, classes, and artifacts of programming languages ??in general. Some advantages of these conventions are:

• Reducing the effort required to read the code
• With a reduced reading barrier, it is easier for the code reviewer to truly focus on what has been implemented and not on syntax minutiae
• It facilitates sharing, reading and rewriting code among team members
• It helps the code author understand the intention of what was previously written, especially in previous projects
• It increases clarity and reduces ambiguity in the text
• It formalizes expectations and promotes team consistency
• It avoids a lot of repetition and conflicts caused by the same names being used for different artifacts
• It facilitates and speeds up the programming process, with guides on how to name objects
• It improves the aesthetic and professional quality of the code

These advantages are widely recognized by the industry, and it is a challenge for the reader to find a single company with a programming sector in the world that does not use naming conventions.

Despite all the advantages, the convention must be chosen very wisely, since the positive aspects will only be achieved if a convention is chosen that meets the needs of the language used, the company, the team and that is in line with market expectations. This task is not so complex nowadays, since almost all programming languages ??and large companies in the world are happy to publish their programming standards, since they know the value of having the code available on the market and in public repositories meet these expectations.

Naming standards are usually organized as in the following fantasy example:

A fan of well-structured code and well-written anime, João Henz is a programmer at Izyplay Game Studio, working tirelessly for the success of the team and the smooth running of their games on any platform.