After many years of coding including freelance, different companies, startups and contribution to open source projects I came up with simple directory structure for all my projects in past, present and future:

S:/www/<company name>/<project name> where <company name> might be the GitHub organization name, university name, your own non-profit or just freelance/self and in some cases you might create 1 additional directory level.

Some examples:

S:/www/bunny/bunny

S:/www/bunny/assets-builder

S:/www/laravel/framework

S:/www/twbs/bootstrap

S:/www/company1/project1

S:/www/company1/project5

S:/www/company3/project2

S:/www/schoolname/studentname/projectname - since I am also teaching

S:/www/test/... - for fast tests, ideas, tmp work

Same structure I keep on all my devices, on unix it is just /home/mevrael/www

All the above www stores git repos (for web projects obviously). If there are some documents or other files - they are just stored in general S:/projects/samestructure. For iOS Swift projects I have xcode folder instead of www and if I still would do gamedev it could be S:/gamedev/

With this structure you won't have any problems in the future. When you start working in a new company or on a new open source project, just create a main directory for all company/organization projects.

I use WAMP SO most of my projects are in 'c:\wamp\www'. And then apply what @chilimatic said with prototypes etc.

normal git repos are

• git repos: /home/user/development/repos/projectlanguage/projectname
• project files: /home/user/owncloud/project/ [db dumps, docs, images, ...]
• prototypes: /home/user/development/prototypes/projectlanguage/projectname
• stublibs: /home/user/development/lib/projectlanguage/libname
• compiledir: /home/user/development/build/projectlanguage/projectname

the reason why i seperated prototypes from the common repos is that I don't always version them in the beginning. that's all nothing fancy or insightful.

I maintain my folders as GitHub and bitbucket and create projects there In Github, my public, forked repos reside and bitbucket my office/company projects It's very simple no need to think lot about the folder structure