Tips that can make code development little bit easier and more efficient regardless of programing language, OS and your experience.

  1. Make the username simple
    • Simple to type
    • Avoid special spaces
  2. Make directory and file names simple
  3. Keep the source code closer to disc root

Make your username easy to type

Make it short, use small letters (so you don’t have to press shift), use only Latin symbols, avoid using spaces or special symbols.

Example john

You will probably have to type your username in a system terminal quite often. Keeping it simple will save you time and your little finger.

Sometimes you need to type a directory path in a terminal. Some terminals require quotes if the path contains space.

cd ./username/
cd "./user name/"

Removing space from path name will save you some more time.

The same advice can be applied to any directory, file name, name of your project and other names you will have to type often.

File names and directories

Same advice can be applied to any file and directory name. Try to keep it short, avoid unicode (Korean or any other non-English), spaces or other special symbols.

Example of Linux system directories bin, usr, lib, dev, home, local, share, tmp, etc

Keep the source code closer to disc root

I recommend to keep all your development projects closer to disc root. It will simplify navigation. For example:

D:\src\adsp
D:\src\kds
D:\src\datafusion