question about Best practice how to code

[Marcin Rutkowski]

I'm in the middle of bigger project but I'm far from programmer  ...and still learning :)

My question is regarding best practice, how to write the code, I have no problem how to write it to do  what I want it to do, but the question is  what is the best practice

example :

class classContainerTrigger
  {
private:
   ;//                                   ........ P R I V A T E   - F L A G S
   bool              flagDebugLocal;                  //  << permanent debuging features
   bool              flagInitialSetup;                //  << w momencie pierwszego wykonania zmienia sie na false

   string            varClassName;
   datetime          varClassCreatedTime;

   ;// LOG RELATED START  <<<<<
   bool              flagLogAllEventsToFile;             // 
   bool              flagLogAllEventsToFileSecondary;    // 
   string            varLogFileName;
   int               varLogFileCounter;
   ;// LOG RELATED STOP


   int               varArrayIndex;       // 

   void              constructorCommon(void);      //

protected:

public:
   ;//                                   ........ P U B L I C    - V A R I A B L E S
   double            arrayTgSettings[];                  // aktualne ustawienia parametrow
   double            arrayTgDetails[];                   // aktualne wartosci parametrow

   void              classContainerTrigger(int parIndexNo=0);
   void             ~classContainerTrigger(void);

  };

this is just a example, and confusion is regarding arrays.  For variables the best practice is to set them PRIVATE and create SETTERS and GETTERS. Vary tedious but I just doing it, but what about arrays, should they be private to, and I should create all necessary methods regarding those functions  ...is there a article / document where PROS are sharing good practices how to code should look like , habits. I 'd like to my code look good and work well but the think I don't like to comeback to something   in the future because is written not correctly   ... Is  anybody know a good article because if You google it You will find a lot of opinions and I don't know how to filter them :)   ...or maybe the keywords how to look for things like this ??

Regards and thank You

[lippmaje]

You could google for coding guidelines or naming conventions. It's up to you, if it helps to understand your code better then stick with it, personally I prefer the C# style. Flag names start with is/has... like in bool isDone=false

Private/public members: Everything that should not be modified from outside the class should not be made public, so yes, define getters and setters where required.

Array getters: In C# I'd return array content as ReadOnlyCollection (a special interface that will prevent public modifications without creating safety copies). But I think it's not possible here to cast arrays to const, so I would use a getter like GetTgSetting(int at) for individual access and a getter to retrieve a full copy like GetTgSettings(double & settings[])