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

[Darlene Wallach]

-------- Original Message --------
From: Jean Tessier <jean at jeantessier.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 00:21:05 -0700
Subject: Re: [svp] [Fwd: [prog] Book Recommendation for OOP Design]

I would start straight away with Fowler's "Refactorings" if I 
were you.

I list my own book preferences on my webpage, 
http://jeantessier.com/
(under Software), and I also started a reading journal where I 
mention
Mike Shalloway's book.  I read the first edition of Larman's book:
solid, but not my favorite; a little too formal to my taste.

I highly recommend you look at:

	Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices
	by Robert C. Martin
	http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0135974445/

Don't let the title fool you, section 2 is all about common sense OO
techniques and guidelines to structure for you to code by.

You might also want to check out Kent Beck's books.  I really 
liked how
he described coming up with JUnit in:

	http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/cookstour/cookstour.htm

And I think his TDD book starts of from there and elaborates further.

	Test Driven Development: By Example
	by Kent Beck
	http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0321146530/

I hope this helps,
Jean.


Darlene Wallach wrote:
> In case people have suggestions and/or comments for Elizabeth ...
> 
> Darlene
> 
> -------- 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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