Another great Head First title

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Book:		Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Subject:		Another great Head First title
Date:		2006-12-13 09:03:48
From:		Eric

Rating: First off, I'm already a fan of the Head First series - especially the Head First Design Patterns book. This book follows the same entertaining style and keeps your attention page after page. To me, there are two kinds of Head First books, ones relating to technologies like Java, Servlets & JSPs, EJB, etc and ones that cover a more traditionally academic topics like Design Patterns and this book, OO Analysis and Design. Personally, I like the Head First treatment on the academic topics better than the others. So, if you weren't a fan of Head First Java (for example) you might want to give this book (or the Design Patterns one) a try. Specifically for this book - I really liked the chapter layout and the progression as each chapter builds upon the next. The chapters explain the basics of OO principles, ease you into Use Cases and how to write good ones, and continues building upon OO Design principles. When the Head First Design Patterns book came out, we purchased a bunch for the office and held a few "lunch and learn" classes on design patterns for the team at work. I can easily see doing the same thing with this book, as the Head First books make it easy to use as instructional manuals as well. If you have found other books (lectures, articles, etc) on OO Analysis and Design a bit intimidating or conceptually difficult to grasp, this is the book for you.