Booch's book feels too philosophical rather than practical?

hai all,

1st of all i am newbie to what you call OOA-D. so i searched the
archives of this newsgroup & i got this path:

OOA-D -> UML -> OOP

i also noticed one very interesting thing here about OOP step: OOP
should be done preferably in a language that you will not use
professionally, as told by "Lahman". i think he is right.

reagarding OOA-D i see 4-5 recommendations but only 2 are available in
my country: Booch & Rumbaugh

i read some part of chapter 3 of "OOA & D with applications " by Grady
Booch (around 10-12 pages). it feels *too* philsophical rather than
practical, as if he is the king of "academic education" & doing Ph. D
research on OOA-D or something like that. i dont even understand 10% of
what Booch was talking about. it literaly swept above my head :-( . as
per my experience, having a computer degree at hand ( i have a graduate
degree) & writing code professionally are 2 very-very *different*
things & Booch belong to the former side, at least this is is what i
have felt.

Does Rumbaugh writes in the same manner?

UML authors like: Fowler, Page-Jones,Larman are easily available in my
country (INDIA)

i am learning C++ & not able to understand the OOP animal there. i only
have done some non-professional Lisp Programming, like writing some
trivial programmes & dont know any other language. what i want to say
is, functional/procedural style comes naturally to me, this is exactly
how i write trivial programmes & when i faced C++, i was completely
blown-up into pieces. i dont even understand what exactly OOP is.

i want to learn OOP and i dont want to read philosophical concepts. so
i was thinking of buying Craig Larman's "Applying UML and Patterns".
does anybody has any suggestions?


"arnuld"
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