If you want to start simple, forget all those acronyms, forget design patterns, forget activity diagrams. You want to learn the very basics of what objects are and what they can do for you. You also won't understand the conceptual books without practicing some real code.
My suggestion would be to learn some basics of another language that is written to take advantage of OOP. As you know, ColdFusion isn't, and there aren't good books that show you how to think that way via code in ColdFusion. One thing I had a friend do recently was download Microsoft C# Express and gave him my O'Reilly C# book (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progcsharp2/) and had him focus on the chapters involving the canons of OOP. Within two weeks, he had finished all of the code tutorials, tried some things on his own and had a basuic, yet solid, understanding of OOP. Without writing real code, you won't gain a true understanding of the subtleties. Steve "The Boss" Brownlee http://www.orbwave.com/cfjboss -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: SOT: OOD/Design Patterns and ColdFusion. I guess I just do not have a natural OOP/OOD/OOA type mind. I get a basic object and its purpose to encapsulate data and functionality. But as soon as I try to start putting objects together to build a system, I quickly get lost in a quagmire. This usually results in my falling back to my procedural experience, peppered with a small object or two, to get the current task done by my deadline. So can anybody point out a good resource or ten on how to actually program with object and patterns. Everything I have found to date seems to be geared on selling the why one should program this way and are very light on the how one actually writes the code. Conversely, if I can pick the minds of this group, maybe somebody can give me some pointers on how one would solve a common web requirement with objects/cfcs. This would be a basic admin task of showing a list of items allowing for the adding and editing of these items with data validation and the storage of the data in a database. I hear terms like beans, DAO's, MVC patterns ect. But I can't figure out how to even start coding all this. I suppose that one could just pick a framework that uses all this. But I would feel much more comfortable with choosing among the growing list of frameworks if I had a clearer understanding of the basics. Thanks in advance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240676 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
