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OOP via Java

1. So you want to learn OOP?
2. Java OOP Tutorial
1. Analysis
2. System Design
3. Detail Design: Model and View
4. Code
5. Improvements
3. Key Points

1. So you want to learn OOP?

• Get Rumbaugh's OMT book: Object-Oriented Modeling and Design
• See Rational's Web Page (http://www.rational.com/)
• Get Gamma's Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Get Java; see Javasoft Web Page (http://www.javasoft.com/)
• Java?

Why Java?

• Fabulous OO language
• Free for the download from Sun
• Will take over application development as the platform of choice

Java Features

Key Java features.

• Simple
• Object-Oriented
• Robust
• Secure
• Interpreted
• Dynamic
• Portable
• Neutral
• Threads
• Garbage Collection
• Exceptions
• Performance

What about VB, PB?

• Aren't they Object-Oriented?
• Barely
• The issue is they are tightly coupled to their private GUI model
• You couldn't write a server
• They are incomplete as languages
• You can't have an abstract class unrelated to the GUI

What about C++?

• Messy
• Preprocessor
• Pointers and References
• Destructors
• Header vs. Body issue
• Templates
• No root class for all objects
• Usually Platform-specific
• MS Visual C++ for MS-Windows
• Symantec TCL for Macintosh
• YACL for Unix

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