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"Uncle" Bob Martin

Program on Entrepreneurship · talk · Watch on YouTube

Software architecture & designSoftware practice, open source & careers

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

  1. “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”

  2. “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”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: uncle bob, clean code, oop, software architecture, solid

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