On 14/12/17 20:30, Matthew Ngaha wrote: > direction on where I can learn about the principles of system design. > Also why isn't this taught in beginner tutorials, or is it an advanced > concept?
It's advanced compared to programming, but there are lots of books on the subject, especially OO design. If your local library has an ordering scheme I'd recommend starting with Coad & Youdon's two books - OOA and OOD. Although his notation has been superseded by UML (another area you could usefully research online) the principles of design (especially in the yellow design book) are still valid. The books are short and fairly non-technical, so quite easy to read. (But very expensive so I don't recommend buying them new! But I've just noticed they are very cheap 2nd hand on Amazon...) Other good design books include Grady Booch's OOD book (ideally the first edition) where again the notation is now irrelevant but the principles are sound. And for a slightly more modern twist look for Design Patterns by Gamma et al. There are also books on architecture although they are often domain specific, so you can find stuff on network architecture, data architectures, web architectures and service oriented architectures, as examples. Wikipedia is probably a good place to start on that topic. > refresher on the os module and I recalled you covered it extensively, > but sadly I found it's no longer on your site. The v2 material is still there but I haven't got round to porting it to v3. (It is covered in my paper book "Python Projects" which is effectively that whole section of my tutor in dead tree format) I'm about to do a full revision of the tutor which should include writing the missing topics in that section. HTH -- 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
