Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Thu Feb 5 07:46:20 CST 2004
Is this the book you are talking about?
THE LITTLE BOOK OF OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, Henry LEDGARD,
1943- , University of Toledo
Publisher : Prentice Hall <http://www.prenhall.com/> - Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.
Bibliographic :
* Paperback
* ISBN: 0-13-396342-X
* October 1995, © 1996
* viii, 181 p. ; 23 cm.
* Dewey No.: 005.13 20
* Object-oriented programming (Computer science)
* Computer Programming: Object-Oriented Programming
DESCRIPTION:
Based on the premise that there is much needless confusion about OOP,
this mini-book offers a very simple, clear explanation of the truly
fundamental issues in OOP that can be read by any programmer.
CONTENTS:
1. Introduction.
2. Types. 2.1 Mini-language Type. 2.2 The Meaning of Type. 2.3 Primitive
Types. 2.4 Composite Types. 2.5 Type Checking. Further Reading and
Exercises.
3. Definition of New Types. 3.1 Mini-language Typedef. 3.2 Type
Definitions. 3.3 User-defined Operators. 3.4 A Note on Pascal. Further
Reading and Exercises.
4. Packages and Modules. 4.1 Mini-language Modules. 4.2 Packages and
Modules. 4.3 Encapsulation and Abstraction. 4.4 Information Hiding. 4.5
Separate Compilation. 4.6 Modula-2 and Ada. Further Reading and Exercises.
5. Objects and Abstract Data Types. 5.1 Mini-language Objects. 5.2 Full
Objects. 5.3 Abstract Data Types. 5.4 Turbo Pascal. Further Reading and
Exercises.
6. Classes. 6.1 Mini-language Classes. 6.2 More on Objects. 6.3
Smalltalk and Eiffel. Further Reading and Exercises.
7. Inheritance. 7.1 Mini-Language Inherit. 7.2 Inheritance. 7.3
Polymorphism. 7.4 C++ and Ada 9X. Further Reading and Exercises.
8. Object-Oriented Programming. 8.1 What is an "Object"? 8.2 Variety of
Objects. 8.3 Questioning Object-Oriented Programming. 8.4 Program Flash.
Appendix 1: General Exercises. Appendix 2: Flash Source Code in C++.
Appendix 3: Glossary.
References (p. 172-178). * Index.
======== It sure looks good to me. Think I will go buy a copy.
Tina
Bob Hall wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:00:57PM -0800, S D wrote:
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>>Hi group,
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>>I know how to build classes, interfaces etc. I did this in VB6 and also classes in Access. Now I want to know more about OO (object oriented) programming (C#).
>>
>>C# programming isn't the problem but I know very very little about OO. I worked with a very experienced Java programmer for the last 2 weeks and he showed me some very cool programming stuff using C# / OO.
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>>I need some reading stuff about OO but the books i've seen are all plunging into the deep after page 1!
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>"The Little OO Book" gives an introduction to OO without being tied to
>any language. I can't remember the author. My brother borrowed my copy
>and lost it.
>
>Bob Hall
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