References On OOP? 1

[phinoppix]

I'm still having some hard time designing the OOp way. Are there books or references about OOP? Are there any standards that I can consider?

 

[Cagliostro]

The best way to understand OOP is to learn an OO programming language, for example Java.

Ion Filipski

 

[globos]

I deeply recomment the book from Bertrand Meyer :
"Object-Oriented Software Construction, Second Edition"

You can read its description here :

http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/oosc/

I think it is the best book to read if you want to consider OO in a clean way, i.e. not being overwhelmed with obscures things of C++ or Java.
While reading this book, you will learn Eiffel, a very clean and powerful OO language, that makes possible to use all the concepts, principles, technics(as Design By Contract) explained in the book.
A good thing to do is to learn then another OO language(a wide-spread one), like Java or C++(as IonFilipski advised it), that lack claricity and well-designess of Eiffel, and then try to apply Eiffel way of doing things with those languages.

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Globos

 

[globos]

I forgot to tell, don't miss the online extracts of that book, they are great resources that you may seek for :

http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/oosc/page.html

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Globos

 

[phinoppix]

Tnx for the links, but can I ask for more refs!

Am using C# for this matter. Taking my basic lessons on C++ too.

 

[DonQuichote]

Sure you can. Let me add another (maybe unexpected) one: Refactoring (see

http://www.refactoring.com/)

by Martin Fowler. The book consists of two parts: a description of what refactoring is and a catalogue of possible refactorings. Especially the examples in first part are very good. Martin Fowler shows a non-object oriented example that is gradually refactored into an object-oriented one. One of the best "down to earth" examples of object oriented programming.

Best regards

 

[phinoppix]

Tnx DonQuichote. I'll try to look for the author/book on our local bookstore. Do you have url's in your archive maybe?

TIA

 

[timothy]

I don't normally like Microsoft books but this one worked for me...

I'm just now learning OOP using: "OOP with Microsoft Visual Basic .Net and Microsoft Visual C# .Net by Robin A. Reynolds-Haertle", as my guide. I am focusing on C# but the examples are next to each other so I am picking up the VB syntax as well.