Using CRC Cards: An Informal Approach to Object-Oriented Development

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Summary: an excellent introduction to object modeling
Review: i have read quite a few books about C++, java, OOAD, and UML in the past year, and i find this book provides the best introduction to object modeling. the book is unique because it focuses on a single application - library system, and demonstrates in great depth on how to find the objects and their behavior, how to carry out the analysis, how to do the design by including practical constraints, and provides the source code in C++ at the end. The presentation is very clear, very down to earth, very practical, understandable and not abstract. I am really surprised that there is not a single review about this book. i guess this is probably because the book has been published for quite a few years, and give people the false impression that it is out-of-date. it is really a very nice text.

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Summary: Good book to start OOD/OOP but lacks detail.
Review: The book is not too bad in describing the methods used for object oriented design. It goes through step by step on how to create a library program. The only thing I had not liked was that the first 100 pages (~200 page book) was interested in selling how to use the cards in OOD but I wish the author spent more time in translating the program to C++. There is more to OOD than what was offered in the book and less could have been said to convince the reader of the OOP paradigm.