THE VIDEO SHELF · clean code and oop
"Uncle" Bob Martin
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 HN readers recommended it
HN cites it as a formative talk on what OOP really is, and on why teams write code that slows them down.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Program on Entrepreneurship
- Topic
- clean code and oop
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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> it's both easier and more profitable to tell people that they need to OOP better than to use more appropriate paradigms in the design of their code. I don't think this is quite on target. Sure, he needs to go where the people are …
mrkeen on Hacker News · 2024-06
In Don't Refactor Like Uncle BobThere's a good talk here from Uncle Bob who helped popularise the solid principles, about what OOP is, and isn't [VIDEO] Towards the end of the talk note of the stickers on his laptop
slifin on Hacker News · 2020-05
In Pretending OOP Never Happened
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.