Robert Cecil Martin

Robert Cecil Martin
Born	1952[1]
Occupation	Software engineer, author, public speaker

Robert Cecil Martin (colloquially known as Uncle Bob^[2]) is an American software engineer and author. He is a co-author of the Agile Manifesto.^[3][4] He now runs a consulting firm called Uncle Bob Consulting LLC and Clean Coders which hosts videos based on his experiences and books.

Publications

• Martin, Robert Cecil (2002). Agile software development: principles, patterns, and practices. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. ISBN 9780135974445.
• Martin, Robert Cecil (2009). Clean code: a handbook of agile software craftsmanship. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780132350884.
• Martin, Robert Cecil (2011). The clean coder: a code of conduct for professional programmers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780137081073.

Important concepts elaborated

• SOLID principles
• Transformation Priority Premise
• Clean architecture (a variant of Alistair Cockburn's "Hexagonal architecture")
• Software craftsmanship
• History of Computing The future of programming. (first half of the talk)

References

1. He says so in one of the YouTube videos in which he gives a talk
2. Heusser, Matthew; Martin, Robert C. (May 10, 2011). "Do Professional Programmers Need a Code of Conduct? An Interview with Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin". InformIT. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
3. Laplante, Philip A. (2014). Requirements engineering for software and systems (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 168. ISBN 9781466560819. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
4. "Authors". The Agile Manifesto. 2001. Retrieved 2015-02-26.