- Paperback: 1296 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (April 13 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0136291554
- ISBN-13: 978-0136291558
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 17.9 x 4.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #112,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The developer of the acclaimed Eiffel programming language comes through with one of the clearest and most informative books about computers ever committed to paper. Object-Oriented Software Construction is the gospel of object-oriented technology and it deserves to be spread everywhere. Meyer opens with coverage of the need for an object-oriented approach to software development, citing improved quality and development speed as key advantages of the approach. He then explains all the key criteria that define an object-oriented approach to a problem. Meyer pays attention to techniques, such as classes, objects, memory management, and more, returning to each technique and polishing his readers' knowledge of it as he explains how to employ it "well". In a section on advanced topics, Meyer explores interesting and relevant topics, such as persistent objects stored in a database. He also offers a sort of "Do and Don't" section in which he enumerates common mistakes and ways to avoid them. Management information isn't the main point of Object-Oriented Software Construction, but you'll find some in its pages. Meyer concludes his tour de force with comparisons of all the key object-oriented languages, including Java. He also covers the potential of simulating object technology in non-object-oriented languages, such as Pascal and Fortran. The companion CD-ROM includes the full text of this book in hypertext form, as well as some tools for designing object-oriented systems. If you program computers, you need to read this book. --Jake Bond
Book Description
This is, quite simply, the definitive reference on the most important development in software technology for the last 20 years: object-orientation.A whole generation was introduced to object technology through the first edition of this book. This long-awaited new edition retains the qualities of clarity, practicality and scholarship that made the first an instant best-seller, but has been thoroughly revised and expanded. Among the new topics covered in depth are: Concurrency, distribution, client/server and the Internet; object-oriented databases; design by contract; fundamental design patterns; finding classes; the use and misuse of inheritance; abstract data types; and typing issues. The book also includes completely updated discussions of reusability, modularity, software quality, object-oriented languages, memory management, and many other essential topics.All software developers and computer science students, worldwide.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A must have book for professionals in OO,
By Rdabra "rrdadias" (DF, Brazil) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (Paperback)
Unfortunately, the majority of books in computing science area suffers a lack ofprecise definition and clarity of terms and concepts. In my personal opinion, the commercial aspects that strongly affect this area, comparing to other technological ones, contributes to open the computing book market for authors of highly questionable experience and a quite shalow knowledge about the matter they're treating. For example, it is not unusual to see the same author (or group of authors) writing books about Java, .NET, JSP, ASP, Perl, OO, C/C++ and so on. Bertrand Meyer's OO book is an exception in this tendency. The subjects treated are logically distributed and the concepts are clearly and precisely defined. Then, the reader gets an intuitive and deep understanding of OO theoretical aspects, independent of OO language specifics. All the concepts are perfectly prioritized and sequenced: software quality before OO, ADT before classes, features before functions, DBC before exception handling. Every single concept bases the following ones. I must say, however, that the author should be more concise: he writes too much to explain a single concept. He reveals his large academic literate background inserting unnecessary large comments in the text. The book could have a quite less number of pages without any loss in learning the main concepts. I sincerely do not see any problem about the relation between the OO concepts presented and their practical implementation: EIFFEL language. At least, the author shows concretely that the concepts treated in the book are implementable. If there were not any language to complete and support the theoretical aspects, we could say : "Ok, all the concepts in the book are perfect and beautiful, but the closest programming language to these concepts we can use is JAVA, for example."
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Mostly Muck and Mire,
By A Customer
This review is from: Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (Paperback)
The book begins with a bang and ends with distaste. After reading about the first hundred pages or so, I felt that I uncovered a truly remarkable book about programming. The advice it gave seemed concrete, and it had a promising appeal to make me a better programmer. Unfortunately, the next one thousand pages were not able to meet my expectations. In my opinion, there are three major problems with this book: its style, its consistency, and its goal. First, its style. The book is overflated. Meyers often spends several paragraphs describing a concept that deserves a mere sentence. A good editor could have compressed this book down to 600 pages or less. Moreover, his tone is somewhat conceited. He throws words around like 'n-dimensional space', 'topology', and 'monoid' without using them meaningfully. Is he trying to show off his knowledge? Second, the book is not consistent with itself. Meyers states many principles and chides other languages for violating them. However, he occasionally violates them himself. He justifies them via a sentence such as, "while this may appear to be a direct violation of Principle X, it actually isn't because of [some reason that usely isn't very convincing]..." Sometimes I found his reasons were based on misconceptions and personal opinion rather than fact. Third, Meyers' goal for the book is disreputable. The book advertises itself as a general reference for OOP; instead, it teaches the bare basics of OOP and spends the rest of its time bashing other languages and teaching Eiffel, a language developed by the author. I think that this is unacceptable. Is the book completely horrible? No. It does have a couple nice concepts, such as Design by Contract, Bottom-Up Approach, and implicit definitions of Abstract Data Types. However, these three concepts could have been summarized in 50 pages, not 1,250. For these reasons, I recommend getting another book, unless you want to learn to program in Eiffel.
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The book was as described, in very good condition and it was shipped on time.
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