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From: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Books
Keywords: If you want to know OOP, . . .
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.192739.11249@oresoft.uu.net>
Date: 6 Sep 89 19:27:39 GMT
References: <2877@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland, OR
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In article <2877@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
:James Frew writes:
:
:+   I'm 1/3 of the way through "C++ for C Programmers", by Ira Pohl, and
:+   I'm not going to finish it.  Herewith a summary of the problems I've
:
:+   Sorry to flame a book I'm not going to finish -- any counter-opinions?
:+   I'm still looking for a good intro to C++ for someone who already knows
:+   C.  Would anyone out there who's read Lippman's or Dewhurst's books
:+   care to comment?
:
:  Well, I'm a die-hard C programmer, having programmed in C for about
:5 years, and teaching it for the past 3 years.  I'm very interested in
:C++ and OOP in general.  I've read (all or most of) :
:
:The C++ Programming Language                 Bjarne Stroustrup
:The Waite Group's C++ Programming            John Berry
:Object-Oriented Programming and C++          Weiner + Pinson
:
:  All of these books will *teach* you C++.  However, all of the
:books left me high and dry when it comes to OOP (in general).  I have not
:found answers to questions like these:
:
:1)  Why is OOP so much better than functional programming?
:2)  What are the concepts behind OOP, and how do the concepts
:    help us write reusable, extendable code?
:3)  How do I *design* OOP programs?  Top-down design?
:4)  How does one implement concepts like inheritance,
:    genericity, etc. ?
:5)  Should I make functions member functions of a class or not?
:6)  When should I use inheritance vs. friend functions?
:
:and on and on...

...

:  So, what does one do?  Read this book:
:
:Object-oriented Software Construction      Bertand Meyer

	Take a look at Dewhurst/Stark.  The authors do address,
if laconically, points  1-6 above.  The book also clarifies
some of the dusty gray areas of the language to a degree
which others I've looked at don't even approach.  It's:

	Programming in C++
	Stephen C. Dewhurst and Kathy T. Stark
	1989, Prentice Hall
	Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632



:~~~~~~~~  David Geary, Boeing Aerospace, Seattle  ~~~~~~~~
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