Hernán Wilkinson is not only a guy who knows a lot about Object Oriented Programming and TDD, but also an excellent teacher. If you ever get the chance of hearing him speak (whether it is a talk at a conference, assisting to one of his courses in the university or by hiring his training services) I would recommend that you don’t miss it.
Being such a fig fan of his talks I was quite happy last week when I started to see some blog articles written by him, in particular about the importance of using good names when we program. You can get a small taste of it here:
…Good names make our lives easier, on the other hand, bad names make us feel in hell. Bad names suck energy from us because we have to “re-think” every time we see that bad name what it really means, what it is the real purpose of that thing being named. At the end, bad names obligate us to do the work that other should have done, that is why we “hate” programs written by others and we “hate” them more if they are badly written, if the names are bad…
So, if you want to be a better programmer, please take a minute and go to read them: About “names” when designing with Objects and The “Art of Naming”.
And as a bonus, if you like digging in the OOP history you may want to read the following page: Dr. Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming”
Enjoy!
