Good OOP Techniques

[Denaes]

I've found books on the technical aspects, but not on the theory and good OOP practices/techniques.

 

Anyone know of a good book, a link, document or anything else that would help with building a good OOP technique?

[wyrd]

THE book to get;

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633612/qid=1078534713/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/104-5282050-2738367

[Denaes]

So I guess "Patterns" are what I'm looking for...

 

That what the different organizations are called... patterns?

 

Thanks for the tip. I think I'll pick that book up :)

[wyrd]

Patterns are common reaccurances in OO design. Despite this somewhat simplistic description of patterns, it's not entirely what the book is about (although it may seem at first glance - read the description on Amazon.com or browse the book at your book store). I consider this book somewhat similar to some of the great Philosophy books that I've read; each sentence has so much wealth of knowledge in it, you'll find yourself re-reading them several times.

 

I should warn you, the book isn't for the feignt of heart. Make sure you are very familiar with OOP before reading it. When I first starting reading this book, I was like "what?" I revisited it 6 months later, and had that "aha!" .. as if a lightbult went off in my head. Not only has my programming and design greatly benefited, but it has also given me a far better understanding of the .NET framework and how it all works.

[Denaes]

I'll say I'm definately far from masterfull in all aspects OOP and class related, but I can make classes and do most of the basics.

 

At least the book would give me some goals as to what I need to learn.

 

All I know now is that I see someones OOP program and its like a fricking honeycomb of classes all half inheriting from each other and instantiantiating other classes within classes and I'm like "woah". Not that I can't follow whats going on. I can figure out where what procedure is, how to get it and how to use it. What I scratch my head at is how do I come to the conclusion that this application needs 12 seperate classes, and how do I come to the conclusion of how to best set them up?

 

I just make a single class and put the procedures I'll use again in there. I'm starting to really see benefits of overloading procedures...

[wyrd]

Ahh, I see. In that case, it sounds like you could greatly benefit from the book below as well (light reading compared to Design Patterns, but make no mistake, you'll still learn quite a bit). It's got a little bit of everything.

 

It's called Code Complete

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556154844/qid=1078563253/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-5282050-2738367

 

I should probably mention that it's a good idea to get a few opinions before purchasing (don't go on mine alone), and thumbing through the books at your local book store is always a good choice as well.

 

That would be a hint for OTHER forum browsers to chime in. :P

[Joe Mamma]

Design patterns is a classic.

belongs in everybodies library!!!

 

then there is Booch's classic

 

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications

 

If I may add Programming .NET Components for specifics in the .NET world

 

Joe Mamma

[PlausiblyDamp]

If found this book to be a pretty good read. It's the one that accompanies the Sharp Development open source IDE.

I found it useful to see examples of design patterns explained in the context of an actual application rather than is purely abstract terms - it also discusses the 'why we did this not this' aspects as well which is something I've found a lot of books do not cover.

 

Also as a quick overview of the more common design patters you may want to wander over here.

[gabru]

i can recommend this book. I am currently reading it and its good till now:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201485672/qid=1078589878/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-3402366-4898356

 

its for every programmer who want to improve more and more.