Any source of good object-oriented design practices? [closed]

Answer 1

Ward Cunningham's wiki (he invented wikis -- the c2.com one was the first one and is still active) has a lot of discussion, especially but not exclusively about patterns (Ward was very involved in the start of the whole idea of design patterns, as well as agile programming and quite a few more things;-). You can start here for example. It's not as coordinated and structured as you desire (actually pretty chaotic at times;-) but it can be really instructive to follow all the back-and-forth debates.

Answer 2

Well I can't point you to web sites, but I can refer you to some great books :

• Effective C++
• More effective C++
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Exceptional C++
• More exceptional C++

Of course, those are C++ books, but a lot of concepts in them applies to much more than just C++

Answer 3

http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Software-Construction-Prentice-Hall-International/dp/0136291554

Object Oriented Software Construction - Betrand Mayer

He's the man that originated the Eiffel language, the most complete analysis of OO software construction I've read.

Answer 4

Object Thinking - David West.

Answer 5

i dont know if this site has any discussions, but very good articles:

object mentor (archive)

Answer 6

Some books that have not been mentioned:

Larry Constantine's Structured Design

Grady Booch's Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock's Designing Object-Oriented Software

Ivar Jacobson's Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach

Kent Beck's Implementation Patterns

Steve McConnell's Code Complete

Joshua Kerievsky's Refactoring To Patterns