Object Thinking.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, David.

Series:

Developer Reference

Microsoft professional Object thinking

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Object-oriented methods (Computer science).

Object-oriented methods (Computer science)--Development.

Local Subjects:

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Object-oriented methods (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Object thinking

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol : Microsoft Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In OBJECT THINKING, esteemed object technologist David West contends that the mindset makes the programmer-not the tools and techniques. Delving into the history, philosophy, and even politics of object-oriented programming, West reveals how the best programmers rely on analysis and conceptualization-on thinking-rather than formal process and methods. Both provocative and pragmatic, this book gives form to what's primarily been an oral tradition among the field's revolutionary thinkers-and it illustrates specific object-behavior practices that you can adopt for true object design and s

Contents:

Cover; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; A Different (and Possibly Controversial) Kind of Software Book; Paths and Destinations; Who Should Read This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Introduction; Curiosities; The "People Issue"; The Need for Better Developers; Producing Better Developers; Object Thinking; XP and Object Thinking; Chapter 1: Object Thinking; Observing the Object Difference; Object Thinking = Think Like an Object; Problem = Solution; Object Thinking and Agile Development Practices; Values; Selected Practices; Thinking Is Key

Software Development Is a Cultural ActivityOnward; Chapter 2: Philosophical Context; Philosophy Made Manifest-Dueling Languages; SIMULA; C++; Smalltalk; Formalism and Hermeneutics; Postmodern Critiques; Chapter 3: From Philosophy to Culture; Four Presuppositions; One: Everything is an object.; Two: Simulation of a problem domain drives object discovery and definition.; Three: Objects must be composable.; Four: Distributed cooperation and communication must replace hierarchical centralized control as an organizational paradigm.; Object Principles-Software Principles; Cooperating Cultures

Chapter 4: Metaphor: Bridge to the UnfamiliarThe Lego Brick Metaphor; The Object-as-Person Metaphor; Software as Theater; Programmers as Directors; Ants, Not Autocrats; Two Human-Derived Metaphors; Inheritance; Responsibility; Thinking Like an Object; Chapter 5: Vocabulary: Words to Think With; Essential Terms; Object; Responsibility; Message; Interface (Protocol); Extension Terms; Collaboration and Collaborator; Class; Class Hierarchy (Library); Abstract/Concrete; Inheritance; Delegation; Polymorphism; Encapsulation; Component; Framework; Pattern; Implementation Terms; Method; Variable

Late/Dynamic BindingAuxiliary Concepts; Domain; Business Requirement; Business Process Reengineering; Application; Chapter 6: Method, Process, and Models; Two Decades of Object Methodology; Purpose and Use of Method; A Syncretic Approach; Models; Semantic Net; Object Cubes; Interaction Diagram; Static Relation Diagram; Object State Chart; Chapter 7: Discovery; Domain Understanding; Domain Anthropology; Object Definition; Heuristics; Chapter 8: Thinking Toward Design; Object Internals; Knowledge Required; Message Protocol; Message Contracts; State Change Notification; Object Appearance

Occasions Requiring an AppearanceObject State, Object Constraints; Chapter 9: All the World's a Stage; Static Relationships; Is-a-Kind-of Relationship; Collaborates-with Relationship; Situational Relationship; Dynamic Relationships; Scripts; Event Dispatching; Constraints; Self-Evaluating Rules; Implementation; Methods; Knowledge Maintenance Objects; Development at the Speed of Thought; Chapter 10: Wrapping Up; Vexations; The Impedance Mismatch Problem; A Problem with GUIs; Extensions; Frameworks; Object-Based Evocative Architecture; Provocation-The Future of Objects; Bibliography; Index; A

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780735635616

0735635617

OCLC:

609857036