How Long did it take you to learn OOP

[Vbabiy]

Hey guys,
I was just wondering how long it took you guys to learn OOP? and how you learned by reading books and articles are just trying it?

[Jason_Batten]

I'm currently reading: The Object Oriented Thought Process 2nd Edition by Matt Weisfeld - Almost done 😃

First four chapters can be found here at developer.com for free.

You need to learn the concepts of OO before trying to write OO code. Otherwise you'll just confuse yourself. Once you understand the OO concepts try this free ebook: PHP 5 Power Programming from Prentice Hall.

Good luck 🙂

[vaaaska]

The books are good...and I think the ones Jason speaks of good as well.

Once you have a grasp it's best to keep on reading but also grab a good open souce OOP application and deconstruct it.

Jason, is this the same book that Elizabeth pointed us to in one of her week reports awhile back?

[Vbabiy]

Hey jason is that book more Java Base or PHP?

[Jason_Batten]

Vbabiy wrote:

Hey jason is that book more Java Base or PHP?

Neither. It is a book about Object Oriented Concepts. It does not focus on any programming languages' implementation of OO. It does, however 😃, use Java and UML to illustrate concepts, but let me make it clear that these are only for illustration. The author uses many types of illustrations to make concepts clear, take a look at the articles for examples. BTW, the Java code is very similar to the PHP code any way but you must not focus on the code too much it is the concept that the book stresses. Save the code for the PHP5 Power Programming book 🙂

The book doesn't even have PHP written in it. It does have a chapter on Objects and the internet but I am not up to that one yet. The book is very much open to OO concepts, it doesn't matter what language you use or what you use it for ( unless it doesn't have a true implementation of OO, like PHP4 or C 😉 )

[Jason_Batten]

vaaaska wrote:

The books are good...and I think the ones Jason speaks of good as well.

Once you have a grasp it's best to keep on reading but also grab a good open souce OOP application and deconstruct it.

Jason, is this the same book that Elizabeth pointed us to in one of her week reports awhile back?

I have no idea to be honest, I rarely visited the PHPBuilder main site as it lacks decent layout and content. Apart from Elizabeths weekly reports of course :o

I found the articles on developer.com and then had a look at the book. After reading the articles I was sold, so I bought the book 😃

[Vbabiy]

Hey jason i have also went out and bought the book i have started to read it and i am really enjoying it so far i will let you know how it goes.

[Jason_Batten]

Wow! That was quick, It's hard to put down once you get into it but yah got to sleep some time 😃

[Vbabiy]

Hey how many pages is your 2nd edition

[Jason_Batten]

271 pages... why's that?

[Vbabiy]

Because the Picture i saw of the second edition was different then the store one so i wanted to make sure that the store didn't screw me but its all good 🙂

[Jason_Batten]

Yeah same, mine looks like this: http://darwinianweb.com/archive/2005/photo/oopthought.jpg

[Vbabiy]

Yeah that's the one i got its a great book i read the first 5 chapter yesterday its addicting book 🙂

[pohopo]

I took many programming classes and read many books and yet I felt like I was doing OOP by force. It just never clicked. And then one day it just all made sense. It was like an epiphany. Ever since then I look at all projects differently. Not only is everything an object, but that object is living in that it can change as your code runs.

[Vbabiy]

Yeah i am still waiting epiphany 🙂 hopefully it will soon be here