Dave's OO Programming Resources
Last update: 200008.24

Important Note

The purpose of this page is to share with you Object-Oriented related resources for which I can personally vouch. I am certain that there are many fine works that do not appear on this list. Direct comments to me, Dave Small, at dts@cise.ufl.edu.

Books

Object-Oriented Software Construction, 2nd edition

• Author: Bertrand Meyer
• Pages: 1254
• Published: 1997 by Prentice-Hall
• Cover price: $70
• ISBN: 0-13-629155-4
• Comments: Many consider it the book on OO programming. An excellent work. Very rigorous and methodical. Quite readable and well written. The price is steep -- $70 for a paperback, ouch!! -- but, if you are serious about wanting to learn OO theory, it is worth the investment. My only real criticism is that at times, the author pontificates on the basis of his aesthetic sensibilities; he holds very strong opinions and they can lead him to give short-shrift to ideas with which he doesn't agree. None the less, the book is definitely worth reading. The book includes a CD, which among other things contains the book hypertext form.

Object-Oriented Software Design & Construction with Java

• Author: Dennis Kafura
• Pages: 651
• Published: 2000 by Prentice-Hall
• Cover price: $51(?)
• ISBN: 013011264X
• Comments: Good, and through coverage of OO programming concepts and idioms. Introduces the UML and some of Java's more advanced features.

Object-Oriented System Development (HTML edition)

• Author: Dennis de Champeaux, Douglas Lea, and Penelope Faure
• Pages: 532
• Published: 1993 by Addison-Wesley
• Cover price: $60
• ISBN: 0-201-56355-X
• Comments: A good overview of OO software development methodologies; divided into two part: analysis and design. Read it online at http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/oosdw3/index.html

Web Sites

These are the OO related web sites that I visit most frequently. There are many, many more in my bookmark file, which at some future time, I may organize.

Link collections

Cetus Links

• Maintainer: Manfred Schneider
• URL: http://www.cetus-links.org/
• Comments: An excellent, frequently updated, and well organized collection of links. Cetus is a wonderful resource if you're looking for information about all things Object-Oriented.

The Object-Oriented Page

• Maintainer: Ricardo Devis
• URL: http://www.arrakis.es/~devis/oo.html
• Comments: A well organized and commented link collection. This is a good resource, even though it has been more than a year since its last update.