Gary Pollice is a self-labeled curmudgeon (that's a crusty, ill-
tempered, usually old man) who spent over 35 years in industry trying to
figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up. Even though he hasn't
grown up yet, he did make the move in 2003 to the hallowed halls of
academia where he has been corrupting the minds of the next generation
of software developers with radical ideas like, "develop software for
your customer, learn how to work as part of a team, design and code
quality and elegance and correctness counts, and it's okay to be a nerd
as long as you are a great one." Gary is also a co-author of Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design.
Gary is a Professor of Practice (meaning he had a real job before
becoming a professor) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He went to
WPI because he was so impressed with the WPI graduates that he's worked
with over the years. He lives in central Massachusetts with his wife,
Vikki, and their two dogs, Aloysius and Ignatius. When not working on
geeky things he ... well he's always working on geeky things. You can
see what he's up to by visiting his WPI home page at
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gpollice/. Feel free to drop him a note and
complain or cheer about the book.
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"There are solid guidelines within the book which portray OOA as flexible in the real world - in a way which is much more readable than many OOA&D texts out there. For those unfamiliar with Head First Labs, this would be a novelty - for those familiar with Head First Labs, this is expected."
--Taran Rampersad, KnowProse.com
