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Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (Head First)
by Brett D. McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, Dave West
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Fantastic introduction or refresher on object oriented concepts
  How I wish I'd had this book earlier in my programming career!
  The Head First series use a novel teaching style that is designed to be engaging and informative and to work for a wide range of people. We all learn in different ways so this book uses them all to make sure you get the point.
  The examples are clear and the concepts presented in a way that I was able to understand them and immediately began to see ways to effectively use them in my daily design, coding and testing tasks.
  Even if... more info

• Toe-curling code and gratuite repetitiveness
  I'm a supporter of the Head First approach to learning, but this one has failed to hit the mark. I can live with a fair number of typos (which this book certainly has), however bad or broken code in just too many places is not so easily forgiveable. The authors hammer on principles of good OO design, but clearly did not test-drive the code that is supposed to show-case those design principles. To mention a few: missing return statement (p6), ClassCastException (p212), NullPointerException (p254), an... more info

• Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
  This book is very good. Like many other Head First books, it presents material in a very fresh way that is easy to understand. If you are new to Object-Oriented programming, this book is great. If you are very well versed in Object-Oriented programming, you may find yourself a little more bored with this book. Still, it is worthwhile for all people interested.

• Must-have book.
  Unless you are a very experienced object-oriented developer/architect, this is a great book.
  The methodology is very intuitive and it is not a dense heavy book to read. It's actually very fun.
  Be careful not to read it too casually though, as it has a lot of contents.
  I like the fact that it repeats itself after every important concept, so you are less likely to skip it.
  My recommendation is to do every exercise and try to think careful about the solutions the authors go through.... more info

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