Comments on: Technical Book Club: Object Oriented Analysis & Design, Chapter 1 http://basildoncoder.com/blog/2008/01/27/technical-book-club-object-oriented-analysis-design-chapter-1/ Incoherent and disjointed opinionated drivel from somewhere near London Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:51:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: name http://basildoncoder.com/blog/2008/01/27/technical-book-club-object-oriented-analysis-design-chapter-1/#comment-563 name Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:25:39 +0000 http://basildoncoder.com/blog/2008/01/27/technical-book-club-object-oriented-analysis-design-chapter-1/#comment-563 The benefits of OOAD are greatly exaggerated. Structured programming techniques from 20 years ago are more practical: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Structured-Systems-Yourdon-Computing/dp/0136907695/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206267309&sr=8-1 If you still want to drink the OO kool-aid for applications, this is a very good book based on (gasp!) real-world experiences: http://www.amazon.com/Use-Case-Driven-Object-Modeling/dp/1590597745/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206267393&sr=1-1 For large-scale systems forget about OOAD literature, read some books on proper Systems Engineering: http://www.sstc-online.org/Proceedings/2005/PDFFiles/JOC846.pdf The benefits of OOAD are greatly exaggerated. Structured programming techniques from 20 years ago are more practical: http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Structured-Systems-Yourdon-Computing/dp/0136907695/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206267309&sr=8-1

If you still want to drink the OO kool-aid for applications, this is a very good book based on (gasp!) real-world experiences: http://www.amazon.com/Use-Case-Driven-Object-Modeling/dp/1590597745/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206267393&sr=1-1

For large-scale systems forget about OOAD literature, read some books on proper Systems Engineering: http://www.sstc-online.org/Proceedings/2005/PDFFiles/JOC846.pdf

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