| Object Oriented Programming Book Recommendation [message #8782] |
Mon, 21 April 1997 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Hi Folks,
Those of us who are over the age of, oh, say 30 or so
may be struggling a little to understand this new object
oriented programming style that is introduced in IDL 5.0.
(Actually, some of us are a *long* way over 30!)
If you are like me and are not an adept C++ programmer,
you may be interested in a great book I found for learning
how object oriented programming works and how you can
use it in IDL. The book is called _Object Oriented Design
Heuristics_ by Arthur J. Riel. It is published in hardback
by Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-63385-X.
Despite its strange name, this is a book that explains
classes and objects clearly and without a lot of jargon.
More importantly, it gives you rules of thumb or heuristics
for writing excellent object oriented programs.
The best thing about the book is that you don't need to
be a C or C++ programmer to understand the concepts or
the examples presented in the book. (There is C++ code
in the back for those of you who just can't learn without
arcane programming examples. :-) I found the book easy
to read and excellent at presenting the essential
concepts of object oriented program design. More
importantly, the book gave me the courage to plunge
into the new classes and objects in IDL 5.0 with
the feeling that I now understand quite a lot of what
is going on.
If you want to learn *why* you should be thinking about
object oriented programming and how you can use it in
IDL, I recommend this book highly.
Cheers!
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Customizable IDL Programming Courses
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com
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