Programming Naming Conventions

I tend to favour the following rules, as can be seen in the Traffic Intelligence project

• UpperCamelCase for classes
• lowerCamelCase for methods
• all upper cases for constants
• explicit names, even if they have to be long, for variables
• Python
  • 4 spaces for indentation (no tab!)
  • import the modules and use their content with the module prefix (instead of importing everything from the module, because of risks of name collisions; only exception is for limited scope in functions)
• C++
  • shared pointers in C++
  • const and references for function arguments wherever possible in C++

Other resources

• Wikipedia