Robert Cecil Martin

Robert Cecil Martin (colloquially known as Uncle Bob) is an American software engineer and author. He is a co-author of the Agile Manifesto. 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)