Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications (2nd Edition)

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Summary: This book makes a significant contribution ...
Review: "This book makes a significant contribution to the world of business computing by providing familiar business application examples. The strategies and patterns make it easy to extend the practitioner's current knowledge and mental models. Working professionals in business who want to learn how to 'object think' will find concrete examples of applications development, along with practical 'how to' guidance. The result? Accelerated learning!" -- Peter Fingar, Dir. of Information Technology, U of Tampa,

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Summary: This book makes a significant contribution ...
Review: "This book makes a significant contribution to the world of business computing by providing familiar business application examples. The strategies and patterns make it easy to extend the practitioner's current knowledge and mental models. Working professionals in business who want to learn how to 'object think' will find concrete examples of applications development, along with practical 'how to' guidance. The result? Accelerated learning!" -- Peter Fingar, Dir. of Information Technology, U of Tampa,

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Summary: This book makes a significant contribution ...
Review: It's 5.41 a.m. I did not sleep last night I was so jazzed after reading 45 pages of 'Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, & Applications'.

This book outlines a methodology that it also *shows* working -- and working in real-world applications. Definitely something for every object-oriented programmer's reference library.

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Summary: A must read for object-oriented programmers
Review: It's 5.41 a.m. I did not sleep last night I was so jazzed after reading 45 pages of 'Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, & Applications'.

This book outlines a methodology that it also *shows* working -- and working in real-world applications. Definitely something for every object-oriented programmer's reference library.

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Summary: The beginning of an on-going relationship...
Review: Peter Coad here. Thank you for your interest in "Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications" (Second Edition). I hope this book might be the beginning of an on-going relationship with you. In fact, please visit the website for free technical newletters, how-to handbooks, modeling software, and more. Best wishes for great success! PC

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Summary: A Quantity of Strategies and Patterns
Review: Shows you how to create object models (analysis models) through indepth examples and guidance by presenting strategies and patterns as you need them as you work through the examples. The strategies tell you how to approach a task such as how to select objects. Strategies are short, focused. For example, a strategy may have three or four one-sentence things to do to accomplish a goal. The patterns present template objects and their typical interactions.

The examples are relevant to business analysts.

After working through even just one example, you will be able to create object models and using the strategies and patterns.

Includes reference section containing all of the strategies and patterns.

The book uses COAD notation to present the examples, so for people familiar with UML it takes a little getting used to.

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Summary: Dear Friend,
Review: Thanks for your kind interest. I hope you'll enjoy reading this on-going series on better software design. Along with the books, please also take a look at: The Coad Letter (free technical newsletter, http://www.oi.com/newsletters.htm), Together Professional (Jolt Award winning design tools, http://www.oi.com/together.htm), Hands-on "Object Models" and "Java Programming" Workshops (http://www.oi.com/ workshops.htm). Best wishes for great success, Peter Coad ([e-mail]) ///// About Peter Coad: Peter Coad is the innovator behind the leading software development method that bears his name. He has co-authored books on all aspects of object-oriented development, including Object-Oriented Analysis; Object-Oriented Design; Object-Oriented Programming; Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications; and Java Design: Building Better Apps and Applets. Coad is probably the world's most experienced object-model builder: he has developed hundreds of object models to date. He founded Object International in 1986; its mission is "helping teams deliver frequent, tangible, working results." In addition to consulting, Object International publishes development tools, including Playground (a shareware object-modeling environment) and the award-winning Together/C++. Peter's current work focuses on Java-inspired design for building applications in Java or C++. Reach him at [e-mail], or visit Object International's Web site (http://www.oi.com).

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Summary: Learn by Example
Review: The strategies and patterns mentioned in the book are really helpful. They improve the object think. The examples explain the author's point of view clearly. This book complements other books in OOAD and patterns by Craig Larmen, GoF, Martin Fowler etc.

One interesting point is that the author shows how same strategy or pattern helps in design in various problems. Most of the books do not show this. For beginners, it is often difficult to grasp a strategy or pattern with just one example.

One drawback is it uses UML notation very less. But Coad notation is simple and we can easily grasp to understand the diagrams in the book. If you want to learn from solid examples, this is a good choice. If you are very new to OOAD, this is NOT the one you can start with.

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Summary: A valuable asset for anyone doing OO development
Review: This book is a big hit -- a very valuable asset for anybody doing object-oriented development. I really like the new strategies and notation, especially for scenarios. The work on scenarios is extremely valuable. The business and real-time applications really help developers learn how to object model. Very cool!