Re: Basic books on OOA&D

From: Alan Gauld (alan.gauld_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 10/18/03 

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:03:34 GMT

On 17 Oct 2003 10:42:26 +0200, Jacob Atzen <jacob@aub.dk> wrote:

> > Object Design - Wirfs-Brock/McKean was excellent for looking at designing
> > objects with specific roles and responsibilities. This book is lanaguage
> > indpendent but where needed, Java code is used in some places to illustrate
> > points.
>
> Is "designing objects with specific roles and responsibilities"
> generally applicable? Is it good design to use objects in this way?

Yes. Responsibility driven design is probably the most important
single concept needed to move away from procedural based designs
to true OO design.

And yes too about OOSC, It does cover OO Design as well as OOP.
But thats not its strongest point.

Alan G.

Author of the Learn to Program website
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld

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