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TL;DR There are 23 practical recommendations for object-oriented programmers. Most of them are completely against everything you've read in other books. For example, static methods, NULL references, getters, setters, and mutable classes are called evil.

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"Yegor Bugayenko's books, Elegant Objects I & II, show you how to correctly and elegantly implement the object concept in code; while all other books show you how to use code to warp and corrupt the object concept." - David West, Author of Object Thinking. "Probably the most practical book about OOP I've read so far." - Anton Arhipov, Java Champion, Developer Advocate at ZeroTurnaround.

"I definitely enjoyed this book and will be re-reading it again soon." - Ben Nadel, Co-founder at InVision.

"It's facinating." - Baruch Sadogursky, Developer Advocate of JFrog.

"Well-written, entertaining, practical, bold and marginal at times." - Eduards Sizovs, Co-founder of DevTernity.

"It is one of the best books if you have a lot of experience in different projects." - Anton Chernousov, Founder of "The Art of Programming" podcast.

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Series: Elegant Objects (Book 1)
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: yegor256.com; 1.0 edition (February 22, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1519166915
ISBN-13: 978-1519166913
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 68 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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ales veselka

Good book for beginners looking for OOP approach

August 11, 2016

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Elegant Objects (Volume 1) is good collection of OOP tips. It's nice that there is a new book bringing into attention OOP principles. Besides listing numerous tips, advice and examples, book also briefly discuses advantages of OOP over procedural programming.

I also like author's use of objects' anthropomorphic point of view, i.e. looking at objects as living organisms with behavior. I think that helps readers shift their mindset from "thinking like a computer".

Sad aspect is author's lack of reasoning and use of strongest possible words. "pure evil", "it is dumb", "absolutely terrible", etc. This position of know-it-all paradoxically show's authors ignorance; and often he openly admits he doesn't know the reason, but "just don't do it". The advice is still good and there may be other reasons, but author would have to be open-minded and maybe read other books to acquire deeper understanding.

I also felt sometimes that I've been cheated. He writes one example to prove point of argument, and in next chapter says the example it's not actually good and changes it to prove his new point. This inconsistency doesn't add up much of credibility.

But overall good book for beginners looking for OOP approach.

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Zeljko Vrba

these books are way too expensive and basically a waste of money

December 15, 2017

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The author presents his interpretation of OO which he claims stems from a couple of books (8) listed in the bibliography. He did not do his history lessons, however: throughout the book he criticizes Java, C++ and other OO languages wishing for a pure OO language where, for example, even “if” statement would be an object. Not knowing that such language already exists – Smalltalk – he started working on his own pure OO language. In other words, the author is talking about “true” OO programming without ever having programmed in a true OO language.

The author claims that his interpretation of OO makes programs more maintainable and performant, but does not realize that he is reiterating the tension between eager and lazy evaluation. Without realizing it, he is proponent of the latter, and Is unaware that precisely lazy evaluation “by default” is a source of performance problems and excessive memory usage in Haskell, and a big stumbling block for newcomers. It is problematic to the extent that people are experimenting with Haskell dialects where eager evaluation would be the default. Even Simon Peyton Jones has said that “the next Haskell will be strict”.

Even though the book contains a few sound advices (the chapter on testing, “fail fast” philosophy), the overall tone of the book is condescending and gives an impression that the author thinks very high of himself because reading a couple of books on OO lead him to some kind of “revelation”.

Conclusion: these books are way too expensive and basically a waste of money. I’m sorry I bought them. I’ll write a longer, more thorough review on my webpage. After that, I'll give away my copies for free.

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Koray Tugay

I have seen more elegant objects..

September 15, 2017

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It is so sad that the author is giving away free cactus stickers if you post a 5 star review here.. I do not think this book worths its price. It is shallow. For my detailed review you can see my posts in my blog. Google 'tugay.biz Notes on "Elegant Objects (Volume 1)"'.

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J. Leon

Much cleaner code organized logically.

August 8, 2016

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After a number of years coding you look for better ways to write code. This book is definitely thought provoking, in a positive way. Includes plenty of succinct examples where he explains his logic. If you have ever thought "There must be a better/more elegant way." Then this book is for you. I'm honestly reading it a third time now. Lots of "traditional coding standards" that has not "felt right" where his reasoning makes sense. Already completed my first project implementing this and the code looks so much cleaner and I have confidence in my unit tests since they are also clean. Thanks for writing this!

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Buy 2 Copies (one for yourself, the other to loan out)

February 23, 2018

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This is an amazing book. This book, combined with the teachings of Fred George, have revolutionized how I write code. Easily the most impactful book I read about programming in the last five years. There are certain nuances that I don't necessarily agree with, but the concepts and a majority of the content is spot on!

No getters or setters!
Immutability
Single Responsibility

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Edwin Young

A mixed bag

March 1, 2017

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A very odd book. I have to disagree with other reviewers' suggestion that this book is suitable for newcomers to object-oriented programming, because some topics are true and good advice; others are interesting but need more caveats associated with them, and others are IMHO flat-out wrong. All are presented as eternal truths with unwavering confidence. The other problem is that the book redefines terms which are in common use elsewhere (when the author says 'declarative' most people would use the term 'lazy'), which could really confuse the unwary.

I do think this is an interesting book if you have some more experience. I found it a stimulating read, because it spurred me to have a mental argument with the author most of the way through. I was able to find some new insights and it prompted me to re-examine some prior assumptions, and it certainly wasn't boring. But I think you need to read critically.

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Vital Zanko

YOU MUST READ TRUE OOP

December 29, 2017

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This is a really good book on OOP software. And it totally changed my mind. The author is also not native English speaker as me so his language is clear to any reader. It is quite easy to read and understand his essays. Too many people talk about OOP in software industry but too many of them are thinking in a wrong way. It must be readable by any programmer, I believe experience doesn't matter. These essays give wisdom vision of good software design and architecture and how they meet business requirements in harmony. If you need proper guide on OOP you must read Elegant Objects as first thing. I highly recommend it because of this is one of the best and non-formal book on software I've ever read. Agreed the author on many arguments: you had to do a lot of mistakes to become experienced.

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Julia

Must read book!

Not a classic old fashioned OOP book.
Very interesting point of view on Object Oriented Development!

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K. Thomas

For $40 there should be a lot more content

I wanted to like this book (along with the 2nd volume) but at $40 each I was looking for more. If the books were $25 each they may have been worth keeping but $80 is a lot for...Read more

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Kevin

Yegor does an excellent job of demonstrating how our current approach to OOP ...

As a developer who treats code as a craft, I found this book refreshing. Every once in awhile, someone will come along with a new way of approaching a well-established concept.Read more

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Paige Watson

Elegant Objects was the perfect "next step" to continued software craftsmanship

Elegant Objects was introduced as a "book to read' on our team and took off like wildfire. The ideas that Yegor presents (while not accepted by all of us) allowed us with...Read more

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Alexey Rykhalskiy

The book has strongly opposite explanation of ”most used best practices”. I recommend this book for programmers who ...

One of the most interesting books I’ve read last two years (indeed in programming)
It clearly describes OOP in the way ”how it should be”.Read more

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J. Boal

Clean design like this is a great way to demonstrate Code Craftsmanship

This book is well written, and a perfect reference for developers to organize code into cohesive and maintainable architecture.Read more

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Sergey Kapralov

Great job.

A book which asks very right questions about the code we write every day. It outlines issues hidden behind ages and billions of code lines written, so deep and fundamental that...Read more

Published 4 months ago

Jim Speaker

This is one of the best books on OOP that I've read

This is one of the best books on OOP that I've read. I find it odd that some have said that this is a good read for a beginning programmer or someone who is new to OOP-thinking.Read more

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Mathías Donoso

I strongly recommend it

One of the most interesting books that I read recently about programming, it really makes you feel like you do not understand the essence of OOP and it's suggest you some ways to...Read more

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T. Saloranta

Definitely provocative, contrarian; alas, not in right direction

Almost everything I read by this author has provoked a strong feeling of "wtf". Excerpts from the books do the same.Read more

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