Object Structures: Building Object-Oriented Software Components With Eiffel (Addison-Wesley Eiffel in Practice Series)

By Jacob Gore

Object structures are the equivalent of data structures in conventional programming. This work shows how to apply object-oriented component design techniques and offers a detailed analysis of object... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201634805
• ISBN13: 9780201634808
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Length: 469 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

Before reading this book a few years ago, I had been programming in C++ and had yet to really realize reusable software. The excellent thing about this book is that from start to finish, the focus is consistently placed on creating a reusable library of data structures. As such, this is one of the only books I've ever purchased from which I've walked away not only better informed but with immediately useful code developed along the way.Though the book uses the Eiffel language, it should be easy for folks used to other languages to approach. Much to his credit, Gore takes the time in the beginning of the book to basically hand hold the reader through the code and the exercises. As the book progresses, with each chapter building on the last, Gore gives the reader greater autonomy, until the text centers more on the theory of data structures than the source needed to represent them. I found this approach extremely effective, and wish that more computer books were written in the same fashion.I've since read a number of books on data structures and OO for a variety of computer languages. If I had to pin down the text that was most useful to me in not only understanding the subject matter but also gaining deeper insights into reusability, it would definitely be this book. I can't recommend it highly enough!