Re: Confessions of an "OO Foreigner"

From: RH (nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/03/04


Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 01:22:32 GMT

Agreed.

As an example, try designing a 3D engine from the ground up without
visualizing a class hierarchy.

"Thomas A. Li" <tli@corporola.com> wrote in message
news:_gpIb.172663$2We1.37228@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Try to read something about UML, a visual design language for OO.
>
> "Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote in message
> news:bsskln$fon$1@peabody.colorado.edu...
> >
> > On 30-Dec-2003, "Thomas A. Li" <tli@corporola.com> wrote:
> >
> > > When program gets bigger, we do need a big picture or structure, If
it's
> > > visual, it's much better. Visual programming is appealing. A picture
> worth
> > > thousands of words.
> >
> > But pictures and words are different. They do different things. The
> word
> > "love" is worth thousands of pictures.
> >
> > I don't visualize my code.
> >
> > If I'm learning music, I don't visualize it either.
> >
> > There are tasks that I do that I don't even WANT to visualize.
>
>



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