November 2006
Beginner to intermediate
634 pages
13h 41m
English
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Praise for Head First OOA&D
“Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design is a refreshing look at the subject of OOA&D. What sets this book apart is its focus on learning. There are too many books on the market that spend a lot of time telling you why, but do not actually enable the practitioner to start work on a project. Those books are very interesting, but not very practical. I strongly believe that the future of software development practice will focus on the practitioner. The authors have made the content of OOA&D accessible and usable for the practitioner”
—Ivar Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson Consulting
“I just finished reading HF OOA&D, and I loved it! The book manages to get across the essentials of object-oriented analysis and design with UML and use cases, and even several lectures on good software design, all in a fast-paced, easy to understand way. The thing I liked most about this book was its focus on why we do OOA&D—to write great software! By defining what great software is and showing how each step in the OOA&D process leads you towards that goal, it can teach even the most jaded Java programmer why OOA&D matters. This is a great ‘first book’ on design for anyone who is new to Java, or even for those who have been Java programmers for a while but have been scared off by the massive tomes on OO Analysis and Design.”
—Kyle Brown, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
“Finally a book on OOA&D that recognizes that the UML is just a notation and that what matters when developing software ...
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