a1157@mindlink.UUCP (Reece Markowsky) (08/09/90)
Grady Booch has a new book out... Object Oriented Design (with applications). I just picked it up out of process at Simon Fraser Univeristy. here is the inside flap.... "OOD with applications gives you practicle guidance for constructing complex object-oriented systems and provides the first comprehensive description of object-oriented design methods. Numberous examples - drawn from the author's extensive experience in developing very large software systems - and five challenging application projects will teach you how to use object-oriented and object-based programming languages to solve real problems. The First section: Concepts examines the fundamental elements of the object model and explains techniques to identify classes and object. Object-oriented programming issues are discussed throughout. The section section: the Method then introduces you to a method for object-oriented design (ood). You'll study the method's widely accepted graphical notation and step-by-step design process. Practical advice is also offered on the challenges of managing object-oriented development projects. The third section: Applications gives you the opportunity to synthesize OOD concepts and apply the method in five real-world application domains. Each application is a complete design example and is implemented in a different programming lanugage" The "different languages" mentioned are C++, SmallTalk, Object Pascal, Common LIsp Object System and Ada (object based). The first section basically reiterates what has been said in SW/E texts from as far back as I can find.... The software development situation...blah blah blah (ie still chaos!!).... anyways... the book is excellent.... get it.. learn it... live it... love it... Booch For Prez.... hehehhe Cheers! :-) Reece Markosky Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC. Canada