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How to develop a naming convention

NAMING (CODING) CONVENTION: One of the main problems of not having a proper naming convention is that if a file gets misfiled it is pretty much lost or it might take a long time to find. For this reason the naming convention needs to fulfill two things: 1.      A person must be able to determine where the file belongs just by seeing the name of the file, so if the file is misplaced it will be easy to spot. Also if you were to remove the folder structure the file’s name would still follow the folder convention so it could be classified without the use of folders. 2.      It must make it easy to determine what the file is just by seeing the name of the file. This would also be beneficial for searches with the search box as it would bring back all related files. For this reason the naming convention will follow the folder structure and also determine what it is. We will be using an alpha numeric code that could be supported by ASCII so w...