Re: JAVA education

["Rick Baird" <rbbaird@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern Hamberg wrote:

> I'd say, go ahead and dig in. 

That's my problem, I'm digging as fast as I can, trying to find the time
:)

> 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.

and a good knowlege of the existing class base - so's you don't
re-invent the wheel for everything
 
> >Anyone know of a good OO concepts book or course?

> 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.

I think I saw one of those floating around here.  I'll have to
confiscate it.

thanks for the info,

rick
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