At 02:24 PM 5/26/00 -0300, you wrote:
Neil Conway writes:
I'm probably a novice programmer, at least by the standards of
most of the people on this list. I'm 16, and since I haven't taken
Computer Science at university yet, I'm a bit lacking in 'formal
programming education'. I'd rather not form bad habits - is there
any advice anyone can give me on how to write, clean Perl (OO or
otherwise)? Are there any good books I can pick up?
Maybe you should begin with some OO theory:
* Object Oriented Software Construction, 2nd Edition
by Bertrand Meyer
* Design Patterns
Gamma et al
IMHO, Design Patterns is a very hard book for beginners. But in general I
think you are right about OO design being useful
I tend to prefer Bruce Eckel's approach in Thinking in Java. He talks about
good OO Theory in general (eg devoting a chapter to Polymorphism which
nearly all design patterns rely on) and then only later does he lead into
design patterns -- but he does so as a case study of no less than 3
different ways of doing the same thing -- all logicaly but walks the user
through the reasoning behind the patterns in a more practical, constructive
way.
And this one is very nice also (good, readable programming):
* Refactoring
Martin Fowler, Editor
Regards,
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Adriano
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