wanted book recommendation for Object Oriented Programming

[Alex Martelli]

"Jonathan Feinberg" <jdf at pobox.com> wrote in message
news:elt8l200.fsf at pobox.com...
> "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > Although I've never seen them myself, I've heard nothing but
> > good things about a couple books by Timothy Budd.  One was
> > titled, I believe, "The Little Smalltalker"
>
> You have conflated two excellent books: "A Little Smalltalk", by
> Timothy Budd, and "The Little Schemer" (formerly "The Little LISPer",
> a more mellifluous title, if less stricty true), by Matthias Felleisen
> and Daniel P. Friedman.  The latter, for those who don't know, is an

Ooops.  Thanks for the correction -- for some reason I thought
Budd's title was a deliberate play upon "The little Lisper".


> While I may risk excommunication for saying so, Bruce Eckel's book
> "Thinking in Java" is well-steeped in gang of four principles, but is
> never too abstract for beginners.  The book is available in full at
> this URL:
>
>    http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/

Good advice.  Thinking in Patterns, while preliminary, is also
looking quite well -- http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPatterns/.
Eckel writes very well indeed.


Alex