Alpaca Case or Camel Case
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-08-16 17:09:02 - Graham Ellis
A very first practical program on our Learning to Program in Python course that started today.Even at this early stage, we teach things like good practise in variable naming - standards such as using a consistent case (e.g. camel case where each intermediate words starts with a capital).
I was looking for a picture of a camel to illustrate this, but I found its near relative, the Alpaca, in Seend Cleeve. I know it doesn't have the humps in the middle that lead to the term "camel case" in the first place, but I expect my readers may allow me at least a little artistic license!
print ("Welcome to learning program in Python")
print ("The shop at the end of the steet is shrinking hours")
print ("We's done")
howOld = input ("Please enter your age: ")
retireAt = 75
toGo = retireAt - howOld
print "You have",toGo,"years to serviette"