Notes on Robert Martin interview by the Pragmatic Bookshelf

Podcast: http://pragprog.com/podcasts/show/32

1. Programming is a craft and you do it for the shear love of it. Why would you want to do anything else? Why don't you perfect it. If you love doing it, why changing to another field like management?

2. Learn a new language every year. Clojure is an interesting language to know. Learn functional languages.

3. Corporate languages like Java and C# will become legacies.

4. SOLID: principles of organizing objects in a object oriented language: what should be in a class and what the relationships between objects ought to be.
Single responsibility, Open closed, Liskov substitution principle, Dependency inversion, interface segregation

5. TDD

6. The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - by Abelson and Sussman