Looking for a good introduction to object oriented programming with Python

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sun Aug 5 18:51:48 EDT 2012


On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 18:45:47 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> Don't look for Object-Oriented Programming -- since the first widely
> popular OOP language was C++ (Smalltalk was earlier, but rather
> specialized, whereas C++ started as a preprocessor for C).
> 
> Rather look for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD). An OOAD
> textbook /should/ be language neutral and, these days, likely using the
> constructs/notation of UML [which derived from a merger of two or three
> separate proposals for OOAD tools]

Good lord. I'd rather read C++ than UML.  And I can't read C++.



-- 
Steven



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