[Tutor] Help with Object Oriented Programming

[Alan Gauld]

"Tino Dai" <oberoc at gmail.com> wrote

>       I'm beefing up my Object-Oriented Analysis and Design - 
> getting
> the gaps in my
> knowledge filled in through the Head First OOAD book

I don't know it although I've seen a couple of others in the series.

My recommendations for general OOAD books are:

Timothy Budd - OOP. It's not Python but covers the basic principles 
well.

Grady Booch - OOAD - The second edition is all in C++, The first 
edition, if you can find one,
is in 5 different langiages and IMHO much better for it. It stops you 
focusing on the
language and helps focus on the OO principles.

Bruce Eckel - Thinking in Java - One of the very few books on Java 
that does a good
job of teaching OO. He was going to do a Thinking in Python but I 
think it died :-(

And finally the original Design Patterns book by the Gang of Four. Its 
a bit heavy
but the information is excellent.

HTH,


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