The Object-Oriented Approach: Concepts, Systems Development, and Modeling with UML, Second Edition

by Tore U. Orvik and John W. Satzinger

Introduced the object-oriented revolution to higher education when published in 1996, this text has been revised to conform to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0619033908
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Good Concepts Overview

I read this book as part of a Professional College Course.I found it quite good at covering the concepts.Two small deficiencies: It falls short in the explanation of how these concepts are applied, and it dedicates one chapter to implementation with Java (Which doesn't help when you are just learning from a language like VB)Advantages: It is a relatively quick book to read, if you want to learn about Object-Oriented concepts (less than 200 pages without the chapter on Java). It also has fairly good real-life analogies, and a case study. I recommended it for beginners or those looking at making a move to OOP from structured programming.If all you want is the quick and dirty on OO, this is the book.

Excellent introductory book on OO analysis and design

I have recently started to use this book in an undergraduate application development course which I have taught for the past 5 years. I must have looked at around 30 books before I chose this one. The book I used before this was Rumbaugh's Object-oriented modeling and design copyright 1990. The administration was on me to get a newer textbook.This book is easy to read and covers quite nicely the standard OO concepts of encapsulation, inheritance, aggregation, polymorphism, message sending, etc. I like the way it starts with a simple application, then adds complexity. It does not overload the student with details of UML but covers the main constructs. It does not present a lot of actual implementation code. One 20 page chapter is devoted to OO programming in Java.A good introductory text but not suitable for graduate work.