Object Oriented Design in Java [With Contains Source & Binaries for All Examples...]

by Bill McCarty, Tom Cabanski, Steve Gilbert

Book Overview

A tutorial in the MITCHELL WAITE SIGNATURE SERIES, aimed at beginner to intermediate Java programmers. The book uses a hands-on approach, with examples, showing the analysis, design and implementation... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571691340
• ISBN13: 9781571691347
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Waite Group Press
• Length: 731 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 8.2" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Finally!

Java, It's ALL about objects! And this book will teach you objects! The basic syntax to Java is easy to learn, but Objects and Object design is the key to java! This book explains object design, ploymorphism, encapsulation and inhertiance perfectly!After this book THEN you can go back to the other books like Deitel "How To Program in Java". Once you master Objects...Java is CAKE! In my college course the definition of an object is "an instance of a class" Wow..that tells me alot. The most difficult part of Java is learning Objects. Read this book...learn objects...then the rest of java is easy!Very very very very good book on objects!

EXCELLENT job of explaining the "why"

I'm just a guy who has been professionally programming in Lotus Notes for several years and wanted to make the switch to java and incorporate it Notes projects and stand-alone Java apps. I'm learning it on my own - I recommend finding a mentor because I KNOW that learning would be SO much faster that way - and went through several books and classes without really understanding some java basics.After all the books I have tried to read I finally found one that is right up my alley! It's called OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN IN JAVA by Mitchell Waite and Robert LaFore. It's several years old and some of the syntax might be deprecated but it does an EXCELLENT job of explaining the ways , and more importantly, the WHY's of designing a program a certain way. By doing so, they explaing the ins and outs of Java!

Excellent introduction to Java and OOP!

Having last programmed in Pascal and C while still at university several years ago, this book was an excellent introduction into the object-oriented programming (OOP) methodology and the Java language, while also teaching essential HTML skills on the fly.The book is clearly written and makes extensive use of easy-to-understand examples, which are presented in a humorous, story-like way that makes the reader curious to read on.I can warmly recommend this book to novice programmers, as well as to those, whose programming skills were acquired in the era prior to OOP!

A superb, thorough treatment of potentially difficult topic.

I've been involved with OO Design for over 10 years, and thought I knew it all. This book is more than an excellent introduction to methodology for novice programmers - it's also an excellent reference for how to apply patterns in the real world using Java. This book packs an amazing amount of clear and concise material into a surprisingly cheap package. I'm sorry to say, I paid full price for it - and it was still a bargain. Everything from UML to Beans to RMI to Web development. Great book.

An absolute must-have for serious Java developers

This is a witty, well-organized, thorougly researched and informative work. Not only do the authors do an excellent job of presenting the concepts of software design using solid OO techniques, their introduction to Java (in a chapter only somewhat facetiously titled "Teach Yourself Java in 21 Minutes") is almost certainly the most concise and understandable introduction to the language that I've seen.Every chapter is focused and the flow of material is really excellent. I found myself, as someone who has had years of OO design and development experience, nodding my head repeatedly. And the end of each chapter contains a quiz, some suggested exercises, and a section on where to go for more depth on the subjects covered. As a result, this book would be outstanding for a college-level course or an informal workshop of Java developers who want to learn serious OO design and analysis.