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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:12:21 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dzone.com: Object Calisthenics]]></title>
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<i>Giorgio Sironi</i> has a new post on DZone.com today with a look at what he calls "object calisthenics", a sort of <a href="<a href="http://css.dzone.com/articles/object-calisthenics">">workout exercise</a> for you to do to flex your object-oriented programming skills.
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Calisthenics is a Greek-derived term for exercises, in the gym sense. I have <a href="http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/11/06/object-calisthenics-first-thoughts/">object calisthenics</a>, exercises for object-oriented programming, around for a long time and saw them as fascinating, but never got the time to try.
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The challenge he lays out includes rules relating to indentation levels (really complexity levels), wrapping primitives in strings, small entities and using first-class collections. To illustrate, he works through a solution to the <a href="http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.ThePrimeFactorsKata">prime factors kata</a> and breaks it down into the eight different rules complete with code examples. 
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:15:10 -0500</pubDate>
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