Naming Files
How to Name Files
- Use only Latin letters.
- Don’t use spaces (use
-
or _
instead). - Don’t start with numbers.
- Don’t use periods (except before the file extension). Occasionally filenames will begin with a period, but they are exceptions.
- Don’t use capital letters (the use of camel case is fine: myFileName). The names of README files are usually capitalized, but that’s an exception.
- Don’t use special symbols like @#$%.
- Think of original, yet descriptive ways to name your files. Adding your last name is a perfect option for that:
smith_EDA-project_v2
.
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