Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

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"Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design is a refreshing look at subject of OOAD. What sets this book apart is its focus on learning. The authors have made the content of OOAD accessible and usable for the practitioner."
--Ivar Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson Consulting


"I just finished reading HF OOA&D and I loved it! The thing I liked most about this book was its focus on why we do OOA&D-to write great software!"
--Kyle Brown, Distinguished Engineer, IBM



"Hidden behind the funny pictures and crazy fonts is a serious, intelligent, extremely well-crafted presentation of OO Analysis and Design. As I read the book, I felt like I was looking over the shoulder of an expert designer who was explaining to me what issues were important at each step, and why."
--Edward Sciore,Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Boston College

Tired of reading Object Oriented Analysis and Design books that only makes sense after you're an expert? You've heard OOA&D can help you write great software every time-software that makes your boss happy, your customers satisfied and gives you more time to do what makes you happy. But how?
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design shows you how to analyze, design, and write serious object-oriented software: software that's easy to reuse, maintain, and extend; software that doesn't hurt your head; software that lets you add new features without breaking the old ones. Inside you will learn how to:

• Use OO principles like encapsulation and delegation to build applications that are flexible
• Apply the Open-Closed Principle (OCP) and the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) to promote reuse of your code
• Leverage the power of design patterns to solve your problems more efficiently
• Use UML, use cases, and diagrams to ensure that all stakeholders are communicating clearly to help you deliver the right software that meets everyone's needs.

By exploiting how your brain works, Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design compresses the time it takes to learn and retain complex information. Expect to have fun, expect to learn, expect to be writing great software consistently by the time you're finished reading this!

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Makes concepts easier to understand.
I'm a software professional and I love this book. It helped me to remember some of the concepts that I have forgotten.
Rating: - Not for those new to Java.
Although the books appears easy to understand it it littered with Java code examples so do not buy this book if you aren't comfortable with the Java language.
Rating: - Value Depends on your Use
The level of design skill needed depends on who you are. This book would not be of much good to a new developer. If you have built a serious program or more in OO then it will make more sense to you. It also makes more sense if you build bigger applications. My suggestion is put the book on your shelf and pick it up every three or four months as you learn OO. When you arrive the book will be a five. If you expect it to turn your software into five before you are familiar enough with project needs ... Read More
Rating: - great book
It's my first experiment with head fisrt book, and it will not be the last, the book is wonderfull by all meanings of the word, now i can think about big systems implementation easy, now i have a lot of tools under my belt to analyse any system and put it into working software , i learned how to listen to the customer carefully and collect features and write uses case for each scenario and convert my customer words into classes and methods on UML diagram (big picture), and learned how to determine ... Read More
Rating: - Good Approach - Bad Examples
In spite of an otherwise good and 'casual' approach to explaining the concepts of OOA&D, the examples are SILLY and NOT RELATIVE to the business world.Examples of defining classes for dogs and other 'real' world objcets, then trying to relate how the Analysis (ie. Requirements) objects relate to CODE - FALL FLATE and do NOT help explain the connection from analysis to design to working code.
CUTE is nice warm and fuzzy, but does not help someone new to OOAD (and God forbid they are CS grads ... Read More