I need an OOP bible

Mitch Abaza

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Mar 17, 2001, 4:08:45 PM3/17/01

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What book is considered a must have for learning the intricacies of OOP
design? I have been using objects in VB6 for sometime so I familiar with
some concepts (interface inheritance, aggregation, class scoping), but now
that I am moving to the .NET architecture, I need to a get complete
understanding of all OO concepts :

Base classes and inheritance
Virtual, abstract, and sealed classes
Nested classes

From the reviews I have seen, it would appear that "Design Patterns:
Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" is the book I'm after. Any
feedback?

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Jean-Claude Manoli

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Mar 17, 2001, 5:21:08 PM3/17/01

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I can't recommend you a good OO book, but I can tell you that "Design
Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" is probably not
what you are looking for. The preface is quite clear: <<This book *isn't* an
introduction to object-oriented technology or design. ...>>.

You might still want to buy that book once you understand the OO concepts:
it's a good book and it will help you understand some of the design patterns
in the .NET Framework.

Jean-Claude

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Jürgen Bayer

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Mar 18, 2001, 3:36:51 AM3/18/01

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If you are able to read german language you can use my OOP article at
http://www.nitty-gritty.de/download/default.asp?isbn=3827316677&type=AddChap
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It's not a bible but it covers the basic ideas of OOP.

Juergen Bayer

Dmitry Krakhmalnik

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Mar 18, 2001, 1:15:59 PM3/18/01

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And as for me, I liked "An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming"
by Timothy Budd
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201824191/qid=984938949/sr=1-2/ref=
sc_b_3/102-6013888-0198535)

WBW,
Dmitry Krakhmalnik

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Vincent Mahon

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Mar 19, 2001, 5:27:43 PM3/19/01

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Definitely:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0136291554/o/qid=985040735/sr=2-1/107
-5194805-6913355

Bertrand Meyer's "object oriented software construction" (now in its 2nd
edition).
Really very good for quality software engineering.
Good luck,
Vincent

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Aurora Borealis

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Mar 21, 2001, 1:50:25 PM3/21/01

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>> What book is considered a must have for learning the intricacies of OOP
design ?

One of the best books I have come across is a by a guy named Kent Beck,
the book is entitled Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns.

Although the book uses Smalltalk for it's examples, don't let the name fool
you, it has quite
a bit of information in it that is applicable to writing reusable code that
is applicable to
other OO languages.

The book is written by a guy who has been building OO systems since before
OO was considered
cool. This book is probably my favorite book in terms of being extremely
applied and containing
hard core OO programming idioms. It will take a little work to rethink the
ideas in C#, but
it is well worth the effort.

I can't recommend it enough,

Yahya