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Microsoft object thinking

David West
In OBJECT THINKING, esteemed object technologist David West contends that the mindset makes the programmer-not the tools and techniques. Delving into the history, philosophy, and even politics of object-oriented programming, West reveals how the best programmers rely on analysis and conceptualization-on thinking-rather than formal process and methods. Both provocative and pragmatic, this book gives form to what's primarily been an oral tradition among the field's revolutionary thinkers-and it illustrates specific object-behavior practices that you can adopt for true object design and s
eBook, English, ©2004
Microsoft Press, Redmond, Wash., ©2004
1 online resource (xxv, 334 pages) : illustrations.
9780735635616, 0735635617
62892548
Object thinking
Philosophical context
From philosophy to culture
Metaphor : bridge to the unfamiliar
Vocabulary : words to think with
Method, process, and models
Discovery
Thinking toward design
All the world's a stage
Wrapping up
Title from title screen
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Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010