How to name a variable: numItems or itemCount?

Question

What is the right way to name a variable

int numItems;

vs.

int itemCount;

or constant:

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Answer 1

It actually depends on you. The two types of naming conventions are camelCase and snake_case

As you can identify from the naming, camel case has one small letter in the initial part of the variable followed by the Capital words

Eg itemCount.

snake case is a continuous word with an underscore ' _ ' in between the words Eg item_count

As far as the naming is concerned, numItems is quite confusing for others to read. But itemCount is a good name for a counter variable