Pablo’s Topic of the Month – March: SOLID Principles


Pablo’s Topic of the Month – March: SOLID Principlespablos_topic

Over the next few days and weeks, the Los Techies crew will be writing a number of blog posts focused a particular subject in addition to their regular blogging.  Pablo’s Topic of the Month for the month of March is Bob Martin’s S.O.L.I.D. design principles. We’ll try to cover all of them by the end of the month or we might focus in on a few of them and go really deep.  Please stay tuned and please give us some feedback of how you like this format because we’re considering doing it in upcoming months.

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What is S.O.L.I.D.?

S.O.L.I.D. is a collection of best-practice object-oriented design principles that you can apply to your design to accomplish various desirable goals like loose-coupling, higher maintainability, intuitive location of interesting code, etc.  S.O.L.I.D. is an acronym for the following principles (which are, themselves acronyms — confused yet?).

These principles were pioneered and first collected into a written work by Robert ‘Uncle Bob’ Martin. You can find more details here: http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod

I’m going to give you a teaser here of each one, but I won’t go into much detail here as that’s what the other Los Techies articles are going to be about.  Please check back to this post as I’ll be updating it with links to other posts as they appear so you can keep tabs on what’s going on. 

The attribution of the following snippets goes to Robert Martin from various publications.

SRP: Single Responsibility Principle

THERE SHOULD NEVER BE MORE THAN ONE REASON FOR A CLASS TO CHANGE.

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