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Naming vaguely

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Naming vaguely

- [Narrator] A programing mistake you want to avoid is naming things vaguely. For example, let's say I have information about the temperatures in Fahrenheit for seven consecutive days in Santa Barbara, California, and Memphis, Tennessee. I stored the data for Santa Barbara in a variable named T1, as shown here. And I stored the data for Memphis in a variable named T2, as shown here. The names I gave these variables are vague and do not indicate the nature of the data stored inside these variables. Now, say that these variables are used in a project that I am working on with teammates. Let's say that the variables were created in the very beginning and there is a point much later on in the project where the section of code here is written. Now let's say my teammates and I are going over our code from start to end. By the time we get to this section, there's a chance that we may not remember exactly what T1 and T2…

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