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Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
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"Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design is a refreshing look at subject
of OOAD. What sets this book apart is its focus on learning. The authors have
made the content of OOAD accessible, usable for the practitioner."
Ivar Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson Consulting
"I just finished reading HF OOA&D and I loved it! The thing I liked most
about this book was its focus on why we do OOA&D-to write great software!"
Kyle Brown, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
"Hidden behind the funny pictures and crazy fonts is a serious, intelligent,
extremely well-crafted presentation of OO Analysis and Design. As I read the
book, I felt like I was looking over the shoulder of an expert designer who
was explaining to me what issues were important at each step, and why."
Edward Sciore, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Boston College
Tired of reading Object Oriented Analysis and Design books that only makes
sense after you're an expert? You've heard OOA&D can help you write great
software every time-software that makes your boss happy, your customers satisfied
and gives you more time to do what makes you happy.
But how?
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design shows you how to analyze,
design, and write serious object-oriented software: software that's easy to
reuse, maintain, and extend; software that doesn't hurt your head; software
that lets you add new features without breaking the old ones. Inside you will
learn how to:
- Use OO principles like encapsulation and delegation to build applications
that are flexible
- Apply the Open-Closed Principle (OCP) and the Single Responsibility Principle
(SRP) to promote reuse of your code
- Leverage the power of design patterns to solve your problems more efficiently
- Use UML, use cases, and diagrams to ensure that all stakeholders are communicating
clearly to help you deliver the right software that meets everyone's needs.
By exploiting how your brain works, Head First Object-Oriented Analysis
& Design compresses the time it takes to learn and retain complex information.
Expect to have fun, expect to learn, expect to be writing great software consistently
by the time you're finished reading this!
About the Author
Brett McLaughlin is a guitar player who is still struggling with the realization
that you can't pay the bills if you're into acoustic fingerstyle blues and jazz.
He's just recently discovered, to his delight, that writing books that help
people become better programmers does pay the bills. He's very happy about this,
as are his wife Leigh, and his kids, Dean and Robbie.
Before Brett wandered into Head First land, he developed enterprise Java applications
for Nextel Communications and Allegiance Telecom. When that became fairly mundane,
Brett took on application servers, working on the internals of the Lutris Enhydra
servlet engine and EJB container. Along the way, Brett got hooked on open source
software, and helped found several cool programming tools, like Jakarta turbine
and JDOM.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 3 Average Customer Rating: Jan 31, 2008 BC from Georgia, USA
Excellent!
A superb view of how to adequately move forward in an efficient manner toward building successful projects and managing client perception. A must-have for every person on a dev team, from junior programmer all the way to PM.
Jan 31, 2007 B. Anderson from Minneapolis, MN
Great book... Buy it!
Head First OOAD is a great book that introduces the reader to object oriented design in a fun and interesting way. The book focuses on learning the material and it does it by repetition but not in the boring, memorize this sort of way. The book follows the other Head First books by including pictures and graphics and voice balloons all over. It becomes less of a reference book and more of a book you would read from front to back. The code examples are written in Java, but that shouldnt stop anybody from picking up this book. The code is pretty easy to read and only the smallest amount of code is included so the reader gets the idea of what they are trying to show. All in all, a great book!
Dec 19, 2006  Kim
Requires a knowledge of Java (or C#)
To be fair, I had to return this book without using it. The Java (or C#) prerequisite is noted in its Introduction (pg. xxiv).
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