8. Naming things

Among the hardest problems in computer science.

It's remarkable that when we start out as developers, we learn about all different kinds of things like variables, methods, classes, and object-oriented programming, yet we almost never formally talk about naming things: one of the first and most challenging problems we face as programmers.

Naming is at the center of everything we do at work. From the words we type, to the conversations we hold about the things we've…

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