sdl@linus.UUCP (09/17/87)
I am interested in finding out what commercial courses exist for teaching object-oriented programming (OOP). We are looking to teach OOP concepts to about 12-20 of our engineers. (We would prefer to have the course on site here at MITRE.) We would like the course to cover such issues as: class hierarchies, inheritance (single vs. multiple), binding time (e.g. dynamic), and a comparative review of how well OOP is supported in Smalltalk, C++, Ada, etc. We would prefer a course that involves hands-on programming. Please reply directly to me; I will repost interesting replies to the net. Thanx in advance!! Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Fone: (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford.arpa UUCP: ...{cbosgd,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,security,utzoo}!linus!sdl
mhb@wdl1.UUCP (Michael H. Bender) (09/18/87)
I took an introductory course organized by PPI (the company that builds Objective-C). Never having been in any other Object Oriented classes, I have nothing to compare it with. However, I will say that: (1) the teacher was well known in the field (i.e. he had written some books on the subject) (2) the teacher was quite willing to discuss alternative languages (e.g. C++, SmallTalk, etc.) and make what sounded like objective comparisons, etc. I would recommend that you consider them. The phone number is: (203) 426-1875 Mike Bender
mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (09/19/87)
in article <3770001@wdl1.UUCP>, mhb@wdl1.UUCP (Michael H. Bender) says: +-------------------- | I took an introductory course organized by PPI (the company that | builds Objective-C). Never having been in any other Object Oriented | classes, I have nothing to compare it with. However, I will say that: | (1) the teacher was well known in the field (i.e. he had written some | books on the subject) | (2) the teacher was quite willing to discuss alternative languages | (e.g. C++, SmallTalk, etc.) and make what sounded like objective | comparisons, etc. | | I would recommend that you consider them. The phone number is: | (203) 426-1875 | | Mike Bender +-------------------- If the instructor is the same as when I took the course, he is Kurt Schmucker, who wrote a book titled something like "Object-Oriented Programming on the Macintosh" (sorry, I don't remember the exact title). I agree that it's a pretty good introduction to OOP, and though explicated in Objective-C terms, does deal with other OOP languages, and is fair about them. Mike Khaw -- internet: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.arpa usenet: {uunet|sun|ucbvax|decwrl|uw-beaver}!mkhaw%teknowledge-vaxc.arpa USnail: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303