I am working on building a course for entry-level students in Object-Oriented Programming. The topics covered are classes, objects, attributes, methods, inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, aggregation, composition and exception handling. I have seen a number of papers and books that explain these concepts. But I am looking for a method to design OOP programs. They have to have pretty discrete steps for students to follow. Does anyone know of any good literature that describes a methodology for designing an OOP application using these basic concepts?
I don't know if this helps at all but at least it's funny! http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/family/jos/oop/index.html
There are a lot of books. I think that a mandatory reading to all OO developers is the book Object Oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer (Prentice Hall). I strong recommend it
Are you going to use an OO programming language as a way for students to experiment with all the notions you are going to teach? If yes, then maybe an appropriate textbook would be something that works OOP principles in parallel with the language (e.g. for Java I have used "Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction using BlueJ", which was really good).
Dear Michael,
for me the Eiffel language is not only a programming tool. It changed my way of thinking about complex systems. As to your question, you may have a look at https://webcourses.inf.ethz.ch/se_courses/introduction_to_programming/main_page/
Best, Karsten
There is a lot of object-oriented application models. Every book tells about one of them. Model-View-Controller model seems to be the best for beginners.
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