Programmers dictionary/lexicon for non native speakers

Question

I\'m not an English speaker, and I\'m not very good at English. I\'m self thought. I have not worked together with others on a common codebase. I don\'t have any friends who pro

Answer 1

This is an issue that I run into as well, even as a native English speaker. As a programmer, I often find that I need to find a descriptive word for a class, variable, function, etc. I often find myself asking a friend or coworker what verbage they would use by explaining my idea, carefully excluding any words I myself have considered as a possible choice for the class/function/variable name so as not to inhibit their creativity.

It seems to me that the English Language & Usage site proposal over at Area51 is a good place to ask such questions as "What would you call a class (or thing) that does this, this and that, and has properties x, y, and z?