OOP

Pipes and Filters (was Re: GOF State Pattern without fully shared interface)
"Mark Nicholls" wrote: "Leslie Sanford" write: Actually, I've been thinking about this design, and it may not be the best example of 'peer to peer'. An alternative would be to have each module announce when it has synthesized its output. We'd start out with modules with no inputs. Each of those m... 9 May 2007 05:27

OO Books for newbies?
Can anyone recommend books for newbies to OO? I have experience in relational databases and non-OO programming. TIA ... 18 May 2007 19:40

Design question: An unexpected change required
I'm pretty new to OOP, so bear with me. I'd appreciate any guidance or suggestions of material to be read. I have a class called container. This class contains a collection of inventory item classes. In this case, the inventory item class only tracks a serial number of a box that contains widgets. The coll... 4 May 2007 15:55

polymorphism; dummy parameters
Say you have 3 child classes A, B, C deriving from a parent class P with pure virtual function f. Suppose A::f(x1); // A::f depends only on x1 Suppose B::f(x1, x2); // B::f depends on x1 and x2 Suppose C::f(x1, x2, x3); // C::f depends on x1, x2, x3 Is it bad form to define P::f(x1, x2, x3), and then A::f and ... 6 May 2007 12:29

Newbie question about OO database structure & programming
I am experienced in relational databases and programming for over 12 years. I am considering going object orientated with a beginning(free) project for a club. I imagining a class of members and sub classes of family, single, commercial, etc. When I analyze an event class like club ride, dance, raffle, etc, ... 7 May 2007 22:07

Design issues and Design patterns
Can all design issues boil down to these 23 (GoF) design pattern solutions? (Even some of these design pattern looks same. For example, 1. "Factory method" differs object creation to subclasses; "Template method" differs algorithm implementation to its subclasses 2. "Builder" makes construction reusable; "Me... 10 May 2007 07:51

OOD and Normalisation
How object-oriented design can be normalized? Normalization, anyway related to OOD? ... 8 May 2007 23:49

Mapping Class Diagram to coding
My question is regarding the mapping of Class diagram to the C++ coding. There are 3 realtions in Class diagram 1) Assosication 2) Composition 3) Aggregation (Weak Composition). ----------------------------------------------------- Class diagram for A ----- B (Association) I handle it coding like that ... 10 May 2007 15:45

Looking for Java metrics article and tool
Hi all, Some time ago (I think it was about 2 to 3 years) I read an interesting article about Java metrics, but I cannot recall the name of the article and I had no luck searching for it. Does anybody know the article I'm referring to? The article was about a method of analyzing the 'oo-ness'/coupling of a j... 4 May 2007 04:31

Objects Identification and Class diagram
Hi, Anyone pls tell me any link where i can get examples of Class diagrams along with the Scenario with details. Actually i want to imporve my design skills of Object Oriented Model so what to have some solved examples for it. Thanks ... 11 May 2007 09:06