Download or read book What Every Programmer Should Know about Object-oriented Design written by Meilir Page-Jones and published by Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: What does it mean to be object-oriented, anyway? Object-orientation - Who ordered that? Object-oriented design notation. The basic notation for classes em methods. Inheritance and aggregation diagrams. The object-communication diagram. State-transition diagrams. Additional OODN diagrams. The principles of object-oriented design: Encapsulation and connascence. Domains, encumbrance, and cohesion. Properties of classes and subclasses. The perils of inheritance and polymorphism. Class interfaces. Appendix A: Checklist for an object-oriented design walkthrough. Appendix B: The Object-oriented design owner's manual. Appendix C: Blitz guide to object-oriented terminology.