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CS108 Object-Oriented Systems Design
Stanford University
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CS108 is Stanford's object-oriented systems design course, taught in the archived 1992 offering linked here (the course was C++ at the time). It covers OOP concepts such as inheritance, encapsulation, and interfaces, along with design and implementation of object-based projects.
One commenter remembers CS108 as one of their favorite courses of all time, taken with advisor Nick, and the course is mentioned in a thread about learning OOP well.
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Oh, memories. I took CS107 in 1996, which was apparently the date this handout was written. Nick was my academic advisor, and his CS108 (which was C++ at the time) was one of my favorite courses of all time. Bunny World...
Maybe I'm just a grumpy old programmer, but I feel like kids these days are missing out on something important by learning to program in a language that doesn't require them to truly grok memory management.
From my research so far, here is what I have found...
the main topics that one should learn are: * some tidbit of history on why oop * fundamental object oriented concepts: inheritance, encapsulation, and interfaces * network of objects and their restricted interactions
* modeling a domain using objects * documenting objects and their interactions * how are objects represented in memory * SOLID principles * solutions (design patterns) to common problems * concurrent design and thread safety in oop designs * tools in oop design (CRC cards, UML, etc.) * actually making projects and laying out the code in an implementation language.
Here are some books I seem to like so far.
books:
Holger Gast - How to Use Objects: Code and Concepts (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321995546) This book seems to be what I was looking for. It has an integrated practical approach using the Eclipse source code as examples for various object oriented concepts. I have cross-checked various sources and it seems like this book covers all relevant concepts including SOLID principles.
Bertrand Meyer - Object-Oriented Software Construction https://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Software-Construction... This seems to be a great reference. However, I haven't looked too thoroughly into it. I found a nice quote though.
"Today, no one will call security if one of the cocktail guests declares object-oriented tastes. This is the buzzword effect, which has been dubbed mOOzak: the omnipresence, in the computer press, of O-O this and O-O that, causing a general dilution of the concepts. The words flow so continuously from the loudspeakers — object, class, polymorphism... — as to seem familiar, but are the concepts widely understood? Often not." (29.1)
only found one course that I would probably refer to... courses: https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs108/cs108.1092 This has great course notes and projects to implement using object oriented programming.