Any good Object Oriented Design book?

[SONYFX]

I am looking for a language independent book if possible, any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Markbnj]

Booch, Rumbaugh, Jacobsen are pretty much the classics. Google those authors and you'll come up with a few choices. Of course there are lots of others.

 

[mundane]

Design Patterns by the 'Gang of Four' was used as a text for one of our Software Engineering courses. I thought it was excellent, and still use it as a reference post-graduation.

 

[GotGoose]

I am reading Head First Design Patterns and I really like it. Don't be put off by it's "not super technical speach". It's actually very readable and fun. It's examples are in Java but they can be easily transferred to other languages.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059600...1/103-4448969-5905445?%5Fencoding=UTF8

 

[Markbnj]

"Design Patterns" is a neat way of looking at issues that are orthogonal (for the most part) to matters of class and type of entities, but it has little to do with what object-oriented programming is about. You could argue that OO brought a structure to thinking about software that was necessary for Design Patterns to make sense, but other than that I don't think they correlate.

 

[clamum]

The book we used in my Software Engineering class wasn't too bad. It's called Project-Based Software Engineering by Stiller and LeBlanc. Not language specific... lots of UML diagrams. I suppose it concentrates more on larger projects but it does have good information concerning an object-based approach to them.

 

[nyker96]

Yes GOF is the standard but I believe for beginner better get Head First DP should let you learn a bit easier than GOF which I own and love but Head First if you new.

 

[beggerking]

+1 for design pattern

also, MS MCSD book 70-300 is pretty nice read as well.