[Fwd: [svp] Re: [Fwd: [prog] Book Recommendation for OOP Design]]

[Darlene Wallach]

-------- Original Message --------
From: Federico Spinazzi <f.spinazzi at masterhouse.it>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 09:17:49 +0200
Subject: [svp] Re: [Fwd: [prog] Book Recommendation for OOP Design]

Darlene Wallach wrote:

>In case people have suggestions and/or comments for Elizabeth ...
>
>Darlene
>
Darlene,
Curiously enough, my bayesian mail filter classified this message 
under
the extreme-programming (Ok, not so curious, just an excuse).
What I want to say is that 'designing for testability' can teach 
a lot
about good object-oriented programming.
Said that, I'm not sure a book about test driven development is 
worth
one of the listed below.
Subscribing the XP mailing list via yahoo
(extremeprogramming at yahoogroups.com), or the TDD one can be very 
cost
effective, as mastering one of the xUnit framework around
(http://www.xprogramming.com/software.htm).
However I guess I'm redundant ...

Best regards,
Federico

>
>-------- Original Message --------
>To: programming at linuxchix.org
>From: etb <lizzy at soggytrousers.net>
>Date: 07 Jan 2004 07:50:10 -0600
>Subject: [prog] Book Recommendation for OOP Design
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>    My little parser class based on regular expressions did not work
>out as well as I had hoped so I am re-evaluating it and I would very
>much like to make it more object-oriented in nature as currently its
>mostly procedural using objects.
>
>    I've invested in various OOAD books (Booch, Jacobson and 
>Coad) and have either read them or in the process of reading them 
 >but these seem to be for designing large-scale systems (such as a
 >luggage-tracker at an airport) as opposed to "hey, why not make
 >that parser part an object and pass it around like this" sort 
of like
 >the GoF's pattern book.
>
>    It seems like I'm having some difficulty jumping the hurdle 
>between procedural coding and OO coding. As such I'm wondering 
 >if anyone has a book recommendation that may help me navigate
 >this strait.
>
>    I'm considering purchasing these:
>
>         Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on
>           Object-Oriented Design by Alan Shalloway
>            http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201715945/
>
>        Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin
>           Fowler
>            http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201485672/
>
>        Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented
>          Analysis and Design and the Unified Process (2nd Edition) by
>          Craig Larman
>           http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0130925691/
>
>    Has anyone read the above? or there any others you suggest?
>
>Thank you,
>Elizabeth
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