Re: JAVA education

Rick,

At 09:41 AM 10/17/97 -0500, you wrote:

>My problem is going to be switching my mind from procedural to object
>oriented.  I've been a procedural programmer forever, and while I have a
>decent understanding of OO concepts, I'm afraid I'll bring some bad
>"procedural" habits into the new environment.  

I'd say, go ahead and dig in. There's still a lot of "procedural" stuff
inside the components, so it's not like you forget everything you ever
learned when you start with object-oriented analysis/design/development.
Perhaps the main bad habit is falling into the WHISKEY trap—"Why The H???
Isn't Somebody Koding Everything Yet?" OO _demands_ preliminary analysis &
design, I think.

>Anyone know of a good OO concepts book or course?

There's a little broadside, originally written for IBM executive types, in
the AS/400 manuals. It's called IBM's Directions for Object-Oriented
Development. It's a little behind the times now, but still has a brief
intro to the concepts.

The books I've used are Object-Oriented Analysis & Object-Oriented Design,
both by Peter Coad and Edward Yourdon. There's a third called
Object-Oriented Programming, by Peter Coad and Jill something-or-other
(sorry, this is from memory). Their method of diagramming object-oriented
applications has become one of the 'standard' methods, called the
Coad-Yourdon method. The books took some rereading for me to get the drift,
but I did find them very helpful.

A good starting point on the Web might be
<http://www.taligent.com/Technology/Technology.html>. From here there are
all kinds of links to OO stuff.
Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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