OT: OO - book recommendation?

RRorije posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Hi All,

I have been using this forum for some time now. Actually from the time I graduated from my university (last summer). When using this forum and particularly by the mantra of Rocky: "Behaviour instead of Data", I came to the conclusion I must have missed the point during colleges about OO / Programming.

Therefore I am looking for a book now which described the essentials of Object Orientation, in particular Rocky's Mantra.

Note that it does not need to tell what inheritance or polymorphism is, because I have figured that out long ago.

Can someone recommend me a book that addresses this issues?

Greetz,

Ruben Rorije

RockfordLhotka replied on Wednesday, February 14, 2007

"Object Thinking" by David West

"Domain Driven Design" by Eric Evans

All the books by David A. Taylor

 

jeffreydiercks replied on Wednesday, February 14, 2007

If you're looking for a book that will really help you *get* OO, Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design is a wonderful book. As a follow-up, consider Head First Design Patterns. Again, an excellent read. People should read this before the GoF Design Patterns book. One caveat: the examples are in Java. It's not difficult at all for a C# developer to interpret, though. Even if VB is your language, I still think this is a worth-while read.

If you haven't read any of the Head First series, you're going to be suprised - the writing style is... different. The entire format of the book is designed to helping you learn most effectively. I'm a huge fan of the series. My only critique is that they are Java-centric.