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The Object Primer
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Author: Scott W. Ambler, Barry McGibbon
List Price: $42.00
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ISBN: 0521785197
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (15 February, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 24,089
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Actually much more than just an object primer!
This is a great book! Not that it's perfect, but nothing is. This book is not only a very clear, extremely well-organized approach to learning and/or becoming expert in "Object Orientation and the UML," as the the cover says, but he presents this together with a development methodology that makes a *lot* of sense. For example, for those of you who have read Karl Wiegers' excellent "Software Requirements," did you notice that at the end of the book you knew exactly what good requirements are but not how to get there? Me too! But Ambler takes you on a whirlwind tour, with each page absolutely *packed* with value, that instead leaves you saying "hey, now I know not only what good object oriented designs are, but how to get there from here!"This is a strange thing to say, but this book actually gave me the requirements engineering methodology I needed to get from point A to B -- having requirements that Karl Wiegers would be proud of!
Rating: 5 out of 5
What is a "primer"?
"primer ... a small introductory book on a subject," Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, 1994
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not for advanced OO programmers/architects
Before you buy this book, ask yourself what type of reader are you. A) A programmer with no OO experience that wants to learn how object oriented techniques can improve your applications or; B) An experienced programmer with OO development, software patterns understanding and a component-minded thinking for building applications. If you are (A), this book is for you. It will teach you to think and see development from OO point of view. If you are (B), this book is Object Oriented 101. I bought this book because I saw it advertised in several of the Scott's papers, thinking that the book would be an extension to the paper's topic (Persistent Layers for RDBMS). If you own books in Java Patterns, J2EE blueprints, etc, this book will render you hungry for knowledge (not to mention it will be a good pil to put you to sleep), since what it really is, is a brochure to sell you tipical object oriented design techniques that you probably already know. The book covers a lot of topics, but it stays superficial (intro level), with very simple examples. If you are seeking for advanced techniques for implementing or building frameworks and architectures for common enterprise problems, this book is farrrrrr too basic.
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