Product Description

An object-oriented design text that's student oriented too!

Now updated to reflect the innovations of Java 5.0, Cay Horstmann's Object-Oriented Design & Patterns, 2nd Edition continues to offer a student-oriented guide to object-oriented design.

Drawing from his extensive experience as a programmer and teacher, Horstmann helps you appreciate the value of object-oriented design principles, and gives you a context for applying these principles and techniques in your own designs. Throughout the text, outstanding pedagogy, carefully developed exercises and examples, and a strong emphasis on problem solving make object-oriented design principles accessible to readers with limited programming experience.

Cay Horstmann's Object-Oriented Design & Patterns, 2nd Edition:
* Integrates the use of Java 5.0 constructs throughout, including generics and the java.util.concurrent library.
* Presents high-interest examples, including ones from the Java 5.0 library and user-interface programming.
* Uses concepts such as interfaces, inner classes, reflection, and multithreading to introduce advanced Java language concepts.
* Encourages you to master topics in object-oriented design, user-interface programming, and practical software development techniques.
* Illustrates design patterns and their application using the Swing user interface toolkit and the Java collections library.
* Introduces programming tools such as BlueJ, javadoc, and JUnit.
* Provides a crash course in Java for readers who know C++.

Other Wiley books by Cay Horstmann

Big Java, Second Edition, 0-471-70615-9

Java Concepts, Fourth Edition, 0-471-69704-4

Big C++ (with Timothy Budd), 0-471-47063-5

Computing Concepts with C++ Essentials, Third Edition, 0-471-16437-2

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #243401 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 472 pages

From the Back Cover
An object-oriented design text that’s student oriented too!

Now updated to reflect the innovations of Java 5.0, Cay Horstmann’s Object-Oriented Design & Patterns, 2nd Edition continues to offer a student-oriented guide to object-oriented design.

Drawing from his extensive experience as a programmer and teacher, Horstmann helps you appreciate the value of object-oriented design principles, and gives you a context for applying these principles and techniques in your own designs. Throughout the text, outstanding pedagogy, carefully developed exercises and examples, and a strong emphasis on problem solving make object-oriented design principles accessible to readers with limited programming experience.

Cay Horstmann’s Object-Oriented Design & Patterns, 2nd Edition:

• Integrates the use of Java 5.0 constructs throughout, including generics and the java.util.concurrent library.
• Presents high-interest examples, including ones from the Java 5.0 library and user-interface programming.
• Uses concepts such as interfaces, inner classes, reflection, and multithreading to introduce advanced Java language concepts.
• Encourages you to master topics in object-oriented design, user-interface programming, and practical software development techniques.
• Illustrates design patterns and their application using the Swing user interface toolkit and the Java collections library.
• Introduces programming tools such as BlueJ, javadoc, and JUnit.
• Provides a crash course in Java for readers who know C++.

Other Wiley books by Cay Horstmann

Big Java, Second Edition, 0-471-70615-9

Java Concepts, Fourth Edition, 0-471-69704-4

Big C++ (with Timothy Budd), 0-471-47063-5

Computing Concepts with C++ Essentials, Third Edition, 0-471-16437-2

About the Author
Cay S. Horstmann is a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Jose State University. He is an experienced professional programmer and was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Preview Systems, Inc. He is also a consultant for major corporations, universities and organizations on C++, Java, Windows and Internet programming. Horstmann is the author of many successful professional and academic books, including Core Java (Sun Microsystems Press), with Gary Cornell, Computing Concepts with Java Essentials (John Wiley and Sons, Inc.), Big Java (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), and Computing Concepts with C++ Essentials (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!
OK, in spite of the fact that I develop in C# versus Java and the price is steep, I still think this is a great purchase. Horstmann provides an insightful introduction into serious software development. The book provides a lot of detail that is aimed at increasing your understanding of the language (or related languages) versus simply conveying languge semantics. His introduction to patterns is fairly light (I'd recommend Metsker's "Design Patterns in C#") but solid enough. Although in many respects the material was "refresher" stuff, the prose was entertaining and I found myself picking the book up time and time again just to read a few pages.

An ideal intro to OOD by an insightful author.
The previous reviewer sounds like he is looking for an all in one reference. Indeed, if you are a professional programmer and need a reference book, this one is not for you. However, if you're a student, new to OO programming/design or just want to add to your programming knowledge, this is a perfect book. It's designed for the classroom first (see the preface and exercises!), but is also useful for anyone who learned to program in C++ or Java and wants more sophisticated OO coverage. It is certainly not intended to teach the entire language. Rather, it assumes you already know how to program and want to learn more about Object-Oriented Design, including UML and design patterns. This is an important topic and it's never been introduced in a clearer, more intersting way than it is in this book.

Beautiful intergration of OOD material with Design Pattern
This is my textbook from the OOD course I am currently taking with Dr. Horstmann. The course along with the text has completely transform the way I think about programming in general. The book teaches OOD Design process in the first few chapters and goes into more in-depth focusing on Design Patterns and using the JAVA API to illustrate them. I also have the classic "Gang of 4" Design Pattern text, which I had tried to read with no avail before. For a novice programmer, without enouogh programming experience, one does not appreciate the utilities of the Design Patterns. In Horstmann's text, he poses interesting programming tasks, and solves them by using design patterns. This provides a context that a novice programmer can appreciate and learn from. He also references other texts, and tools to help you get more information. The book is not meant to be an in-depth study of any particular topics, but rather, it interwovens many important concepts of medium level difficulty and present a rich and entertaining view on the subject. This is excellent text for a second or third course on programming.