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 | | The Object-Oriented Thought Process (3rd Edition) (Developer's Library) by Matt Weisfeld ISBN-10: 9780672330162 ISBN-10: 0-672-33016-4 ISBN-13: 9780672330162 ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33016-2 Paperback 2008-09-04 Addison-Wesley Professional Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The Object-Oriented Thought Process Third Edition
Matt Weisfeld
An introduction to object-oriented concepts for developers looking to master modern application practices.
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is the foundation of modern programming languages, including C++, Java, C#, and Visual Basic .NET. By designing with objects rather than treating the code and data as separate entities, OOP allows objects to fully utilize other objects’ services as well as inherit their functionality. OOP promotes code portability and reuse, but requires a shift in thinking to be fully understood. Before jumping into the world of object-oriented programming languages, you must first master The Object-Oriented Thought Process.
Written by a developer for developers who want to make the leap to object-oriented technologies as well as managers who simply want to understand what they are managing, The Object-Oriented Thought Process provides a solution-oriented approach to object-oriented programming. Readers will learn to understand object-oriented design with inheritance or composition, object aggregation and association, and the difference between interfaces and implementations. Readers will also become more efficient and better thinkers in terms of object-oriented development.
This revised edition focuses on interoperability across various technologies, primarily using XML as the communication mechanism. A more detailed focus is placed on how business objects operate over networks, including client/server architectures and web services.
“Programmers who aim to create high quality software–as all programmers should–must learn the varied subtleties of the familiar yet not so familiar beasts called objects and classes. Doing so entails careful study of books such as Matt Weisfeld’s The Object-Oriented Thought Process.” –Bill McCarty, author of Java Distributed Objects, and Object-Oriented Design in Java
Matt Weisfeld is an associate professor in business and technology at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. He has more than 20 years of experience as a professional software developer, project manager, and corporate trainer using C++, Smalltalk, .NET, and Java. He holds a BS in systems analysis, an MS in computer science, and an MBA in project management. Weisfeld has published many articles in major computer trade magazines and professional journals. | ||
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I finally get it! This book is wonderful for someone is is thinking about OO. I code in PHP and have struggled through different coding books on how to implement OO in my designs. Those books showed me how, but never showed me the why. This is the first book that I've found that takes a step back and looks at OO for an abstract view that lets you better appreciate the practical view. For those starting in OO design, this book should be prerequisite reading before any specific lines of code are written. I would highly recommend this book. For the first time, I can say, "I get it." | ||
Excellent! Many books on programming include chapters on OOP, this book is different. It's not a programming book - but a book on thinking in OO and in my opinion, does a great job of it. There's some code (generally java) used to illustrate concepts - although the subtext on the cover mentions Java and .NET - neither are needed to understand the book. The book starts with the big picture and then drills down into specifics. I'm not always a fan of a spiral approach but in this case it really works. I especially enjoyed the Case Study in Chapter 6 where blackjack classes are created. It's a good exercise to go through creating your own classes and comparing them with those the author comes up with. As the author points out there are some strong opinions out there on the use of inheritance vs composition. I was happy to see that the author illustrates the use of both stating that they are both valid OO techniques. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a more conceptual understanding of OOP than what is generally found in books on programming languages. I would be happy to find more books by this author, I found his writing style very clear. | ||
Just great! This book is the OOP concepts starting point with clear definitions of oop terms and practices. Just don't try to get into oop without getting the idea first. | ||
Only explanation of OOP that made sense to me I am a relative newcomer to object-oriented programming (OOP), though I am an experienced programmer in non-OOP languages (Fortran 90, IDL). I've had several people try to explain to me what OOP is and isn't, but thier explanations never made sense. I picked this book up and read it and everything clicked the first time through. The author does a great job of explaining OOP and why it is important. I highly recommend reading this book cover-to-cover BEFORE learning an OOP language. And, although the examples all use Java code and I was learning Ruby, I found that it didn't matter. So, don't think you have to know or be learning Java to get something from this book. | ||
Excellent Book This is an excellent book. Its perfect for anybody looking for a book to get a little further insight into how object oriented concepts are used. I have read a few reference books that describe object oriented concepts such as classes, interfaces, objects, ect. And although they explain the concepts and how to code them they do not go to far in regards to the underlining meaning of the concepts and how they all fit together or how to use them. This is what the books about. | ||