[Tutor] techniques for OO design

[Steve Spicklemire]

Excellent example!...

If you're looking for a good book I've really enjoyed Coad's

Object Models : Strategies, Patterns and Applications (Yourdon Press Computing Series)
by Peter Coad, Mark Mayfield (Contributor), David North (Contributor)

It's done in a 'story telling' kind of way.. with lots of pictures and diagrams.

My Kind Of Book!  ;-)

His basic approach is to factor the problem into separate domians, and object
'archetypes' or patterns. There's also a lot of discussion about these kinds
of issues revolving around ZPatterns in the zope-dev mailing list..

Also.. Robin... I don't know if you've looked a Zope... but IMHO you should ;-).
(And look at ZPatterns!)

take care,
-steve

>>>>> "Robin" == Robin B Lake <rbl@hal.EPBI.CWRU.Edu> writes:

    Robin> Although I'm a grey-beard at programming, I had my first
    Robin> real clean-paper chance to specify an object oriented
    Robin> approach (with Python in mind) last week.  It involves a
    Robin> streaming-media scheduling application, wherein both
    Robin> content (live video, tapes, and MPEG-encoded "assets"), the
    Robin> equipment to deliver the media (machines, encoders,
    Robin> networks, disk space), and the people to operate the system
    Robin> all have to be scheduled.

..

    Robin> Cheers, Rob Lake rbl@hal.cwru.edu

    >> Hi everyone,
    >> 
    >> I'm continuing to dabble with Python whenever I can. I
    >> struggle, as I suspect many who have worked with procedure
    >> programming languages in the past have, with the implementing
    >> OOP princples. I've created a few rather simple OO programs and
    >> I can see the beauty in it.
    >> 
    >> I'm wondering if any of you can suggest a method (pun intended)
    >> for thinking about how to structure an OO program. I understand
    >> that many people work with UML, but that's more than I have
    >> time for right now. Are there some key questions that can be
    >> asked in the design phase? A simple graphing scheme perhaps?
    >> 
    >> I'd love to hear what techniques others use.
    >> 
    >> -Tim
    >> 
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