What might be a good Object Oriented Programming book that can give a good, solid foundation in OOP? [closed]

Answer 1

Smalltalk 80 The Language and its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson. Best OOP book ever. Also relevant is the Byte Magazine August 1981 issue.

Answer 2

Nice introduction to OOP is "Coffee maker" (and quite short).

I personally really enjoy reading "Object thinking".

Another interesting book is "Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software".

Next in my to-read list is "Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations".

Answer 3

Try Elegant Objects (I'm the author). It is rather practical and, at the same time, pays a lot of attention to the theory. You must have some programming experience beforehand though.

Answer 4

I am from .Net background and I am planning to read the following book to address this question.

Foundations of Object-Oriented Programming Using .NET 2.0 Patterns - Christian Gross

What I am finding interesting about this book is

1. Use of generics
2. Explaining patterns as a solution to a problem

Answer 5

Object orientation can easily get out of hand. For example, with increasing complexity, dependency management becomes burdensome if not done properly.

Thus, as a moderating set of literature, I'd recommend Uncle Bob's articles on the Principles of Object Oriented Design.