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Object Thinking
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Object Thinking

by David West
February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
10h 27m
English
Microsoft Press
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10. Wrapping Up

Despite any appearances to the contrary, objects are not something you do; objects are a way that you think. To illustrate object thinking, it was necessary, in preceding chapters, to distinguish between thoughts you would have at different points in the development process and to differentiate between thoughts reflecting a holistic perspective and those that had a precise focus. It would be easy, but wrong, to see phases, cookbook methods, and even prescriptive modeling requirements in the last three chapters.

The material in Chapters 7 through 9 is an expression of the principles, practices, values, metaphors, and the definitions presented in the first six chapters. Object thinking requires developers to master the ideas so as ...

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