urban

iTrader: (1)

Guys,

Can anyone recommended a good book with regards to this, maybe using C#.

I saw a Sam's teach yourself C# in 21 days which looks alright.

I'm not a novice with regards to programming - just used a different language which is not OO unfortunately.

Just something which helps with methods and classes.

Thanks,
Shaun

Iain Young

I'd avoid the Sam's books personally. They tend to be very "lightweight", and not entirely correct. The Wrox books are much better...

Professional C# 2008 (Wrox Professional Guides): Christian Nagel: Amazon.co.uk: Bill Evjen, Jay Glynn, Morgan Skinner, Karli Watson: Books

OverEasy

There's a bit more to object orientated programming than learning the language. It requires a different mindset / way of looking at things.

Tend to use a lot of UML now to visualise our software before we ever start coding. Helps a lot

Iain Young

I do all that in my head, but it's a fair point

ChefDude

like Iain said, "in the head"

you're better off reading gang of four first, before getting into any bad habits lol

I am still an assembler coder at heart

urban

iTrader: (1)

I've no problem with the way of thinking.
In fact its quite a good way to work, break up certain bit of code into reuseable recallable sections.

ChefDude

that's just modular coding and only a small part of OO.

Iain Young

Indeed, you can break up code like that just using good old fashioned procedural techniques. OO really comes into play when you start inheriting things, implementing interfaces, namespaces etc. Can get pretty complex when using c++, so c# (or Java) is a much easier way to get into this stuff

OverEasy

Inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, polymorphism.... etc

ChefDude

Hence my reference to reading up on Design Patterns

urban

iTrader: (1)

What i'm goin to be doing is working on a full OO system.
It already does full inheritance, polymorphism and uses a variation of C++/C# as its development language.

I quite like the concept of classes/method etc
As i've not developed using this before then OO is obviously very different with the points I've mentioned above.