Object-oriented programming

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• meadhikari · Dec 3, 2010 · Recommends

  Object Oriented Programming by Timothy Budd. Its the starting book that I got and is proving very helpful to me.

  on “ Ask HN: What are some good books for understanding OOP? ” ↗
• praptak · Sep 26, 2011 · Recommends

  I was lucky enough to get an equivalent piece of advice from "Object Oriented Programming" by Peter Coad & Jill Nicola ( http://amzn.com/013032616X ) which was the main textbook for an OO course during my CS studies. There are good examples there that illustrate this and many other useful…

  on “One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got” ↗
• rramadass · Aug 22, 2024 · Recommends

  The inventor of Objective-C, Brad Cox wrote the classic Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach where he defines the concept of "Software-IC" for "Software Component" based systems/design/programming. The underlying C language provides the gate/block-level granular abstractions…

  on “Objective-C is just, like, a leaky abstraction over C” ↗
• rramadass · Jan 30, 2026 · Recommends

  …are spewing nonsense. Read Bertrand Meyer's Object-Oriented Software Construction, Barbara Liskov's Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design and Brad Cox's Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach for edification on OOD/OOP.

  on “Why I Always End Up Going Back to C” ↗
• Jach · Dec 6, 2020 · Mentions

  Regarding 4, I'd suggest reading Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective first. It also has a great cover (same illustrator as AMOP), though it's not evident from Amazon's page last time I checked. This book is really a big collection of papers from several…

  on “Between two Lisps” ↗