"Uncle" Bob Martin
What it is
Robert 'Uncle Bob' Martin speaks at Yale School of Management about clean, well-written code and what makes good software development. The talk covers his views on OOP, architecture and professional practice.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as a formative talk on what OOP really is, and on why teams write code that slows them down.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2017, last 2024
What HN commenters said
“This talk was really formative for me”
Argues databases shouldn't be the architecture center; OOP is encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance.
mrkeen, 2024-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob”
“There's a good talk here from Uncle Bob who helped popularise the solid principles, about what OOP is, and isn't”
Talk on what OOP is and isn't.
slifin, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Pretending OOP Never Happened”
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Topics: uncle bob, clean code, oop, software architecture, solid
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