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Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D
by: Brett McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, David West

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.117
EAN: 9780596008673
ISBN: 0596008678
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 634
Publication Date: November 27, 2006
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 16098

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- Well thought out book
I have become quite a fan of Head First books as they are very easy to read in short periods of time, whilst still giving you useful information. The book does use Java for all its example code, but I am sure the principles would apply to other OO languages. Most of the book has little code in it as it does say its best to delay coding as long as possible so you can iron out design issues ahead of time.

I studied an MSc that was supposed to cover OO design and UML - I wish I had seen this book at the time as it was much clearer and more practical than my uni notes or the suggested textbooks.

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- Health warning over content
Can't believe coming back to this page that it has two positive reviews. I waited months and months for this book - the publication date was set back a lot last year - as from all of the descriptive content about the book, here and on the publisher's own site, it seemed to be exactly what I was looking for, a good broad based general purpose introduction to how to program OO/think like an OO programmer. I have experience programming but wanted to learn OO programming only once, and get it right from the start, and this book sells itself as a guide to do just that. Well it's not. You need to already be a Java programmer. That minor little detail is not on the front cover, not on the back cover, not inside the front cover. There are some 30 pages ... Read More:

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- Building good software
When building systems, too often I'm wondering to myself - are there better ways to do this? Is this really the way everybody else approaches software projects? This book clears up and answers those issues.

The book covers the S/W development process well - good real world examples. If you've been building applications for a while now - but need to tidy up or learn completely new ways for your approach to building systems this is the book for you.

You don't need to be an experienced developer, there is no complicated code, just nice simple examples in Java.

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- fun take on object orientation basics
HFOOA&D is designed to introduce the reader to the process of designing software. It doesn't push a formal methodology, but covers the basic building blocks that are common to most approaches, including requirements gathering, use cases and iterative design. Additionally, there is heavy emphasis on design principles such as the Open-Closed Principle, and the Single Responsibility Principle and more general concepts such as encapsulation and cohesion. UML class diagrams are used, but no more than the basics. Design patterns are mentioned in places, but you don't need any knowledge of them to understand what's going on. This book is more about the principles that underlie design patterns. Indeed, for those wondering where this book fits in with Head ... Read More:

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