On 29/01/16 04:58, boB Stepp wrote: > I'll ask you the same question that I asked Danny: Do you have a > favorite text which teaches OOP the way you feel it should be taught? > And if possible, Python-based?
I have three; depending on your level of interest :-) 1) OO Design by Grady Booch. But it has to be the first edition - try your library. He teaches it by way of projects, each in a different language, showing how to adapt the pure OOP ideas to the target language.(Smalltalk, Object Pascal, C++, ADA and Lisp) (He also teaches his design notation which you can almost ignore because UML has replaced it.) 2) OOA by Coad & Yourdon. A lightweight( intro to OO concepts without much code at all. Purely at the analysis level. They also did an OOD book which does feature some code and focuses on how to partition an app but the OOA book is better. 3) OO Software Construction by B Meyer (2nd edition this time) The daddy of OOP books. Its massive (1200+pages), very detailed and at quite an academic level but covers every facet of OOP you can imagine. But its in Eiffel - Meyers own language which is possibly the best (as in clean and complete) software engineering language ever invented but in practice hardly ever used. I'd start with Coad. But borrow from a library rather than buy (unless you can get it for pennies on Amazon marketplace etc). But Booch is probably better overall for practical application of the ideas and discussing how OOP applies at the code level. Myer is for the pure theory side of things. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
