• Java is tough, sometimes

Naming Convention

• Packages:
  • Always lower case
  • Package names should be unique
  • Use your internet domain name, reversed, as a prefix for the package name
    • Domain name components that are Java keywords should have that component start with an underscore
• Classes:
  • PascalCase
  • Class names should be nouns (they represend things)
  • Should start with a capital letter
  • Each word in the name should also start with a capital (LinkedList...)
• Interfaces
  • PascalCase
  • Should start with a capital letter
  • Consider what object implementing the interface will become of what they will be able to do
• Methods
  • camelCase
  • often verb
  • reflect the function performed or the result returned
• Constants
  • ALL UPPER_CASE
  • "final" keyword
• Variables: