Programming Style

Every programmer will have a style of programming, the way they write the programs. But, when you work as a team, it would be very useful if you and your team follow one 'programming style' for code readability and consistency. 

Here are some of the standard practices:

• Adhere to the existing style

• If a source file already has a style, please adhere to the existing style

• Indent Code Blocks

• Use 4 space indented code blocks, making it 4 spaces make room of more code within 80 columns.

•  Use expanded tabs. By this way your code won't look different in different environments

• Follow only one brace-opening style

• C++ Style

if.(...).{
 ... 
}

• C Style(K&R)

if.(...) 
{ 
... 
}

• Use White-spaces between keywords, variables, operators for better readability

if.(x.>.10).{ 
... 
}

• Use a Standard Naming Convention

• Use uppercase for macros

• Add prefix for macros within a module to avoid conflict with global

• "UpperCamelCase" for classes, structs, enums, constants and typedefs (use nouns)

• "lowerCamelCase" for functions, variables, parameters  even for abbreviations (use verb for function names)

• Use 'get', 'set' - function prefixes. 'is' prefix for functions which returns Boolean(true or flase) value

Reference: Read "The Elements of C++ Programming Style."