Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

Praise for other Head First Books

“I *heart* Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML – it teaches you everything you need to learn in a ‘fun coated’ format!”

—Sally Applin, UI Designer and Fine Artist, http://sally.com.

“My wife stole the book. She’s never done any web design, so she needed a book like Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML to take her from beginning to end. She now has a list of web sites she wants to build – for our son’s class, our family, ... If I’m lucky, I’ll get the book back when she’s done.”

—David Kaminsky, Master Inventor, IBM

“Freeman’s Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML is a most entertaining book for learning how to build a great web page. It not only covers everything you need to know about HTML, CSS, and XHTML, it also excels in explaining everything in layman’s terms with a lot of great examples. I found the book truly enjoyable to read, and I learned something new!”

—Newton Lee, Editor-in-Chief, ACM Computers in Entertainment http://www.acmcie.org

From the awesome Head First Java folks, this book uses every conceivable trick to help you understand and remember. Not just loads of pictures: pictures of humans, which tend to interest other humans. Surprises everywhere. Stories, because humans love narrative. (Stories about things like pizza and chocolate. Need we say more?) Plus, it’s darned funny.

—Bill Camarda, READ ONLY

“This book’s admirable clarity, humor and substantial doses of clever make it the sort of book that helps even non-programmers think well about problem-solving.”

—Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing Author, “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” and “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”

“I feel like a thousand pounds of books have just been lifted off of my head.”

—Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki and founder of the Hillside Group

“I literally love this book. In fact, I kissed this book in front of my wife.”

—Satish Kumar

Other related books from O’Reilly

• Practical Development Environments

• Process Improvement Essentials

• Prefactoring

• Ajax Design Patterns

• Learning UML

• Applied Software Project Management

• The Art of Project Management

• UML 2.0 in a Nutshell

• Unit Test Frameworks

Other books in O’Reilly’s Head First Series

• Head First Design Patterns

• Head First Java

• Head First Servlets and JSP

• Head First EJB

• Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

• Head Rush Ajax

• Head First OOA&D

• Head First PMP (2007)

• Head First Algebra (2007)

• Head First Software Development (2007)

Brett McLaughlin is a guitar player who is still struggling with the realization that you can’t pay the bills if you’re into acoustic fingerstyle blues and jazz. He’s just recently discovered, to his delight, that writing books that help people become better programmers does pay the bills. He’s very happy about this, as are his wife Leigh, and his kids, Dean and Robbie.

Before Brett wandered into Head First land, he developed enterprise Java applications for Nextel Communications and Allegiance Telecom. When that became fairly mundane, Brett took on application servers, working on the internals of the Lutris Enhydra servlet engine and EJB container. Along the way, Brett got hooked on open source software, and helped found several cool programming tools, like Jakarta Turbine and JDOM. Write to him at [e-mail].

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 a Professor of Practice (meaning he had a real job before becoming a professor) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He lives in central Massachusetts with his wife, Vikki, and their two dogs, Aloysius and Ignatius. You can visit 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.

Dave West would like to describe himself as sheik geek. Unfortunately no one else would describe him in that way. They would say he is a professional Englishman who likes to talk about software development best practices with the passion and energy of an evangelical preacher. Recently Dave has moved to Ivar Jacobson Consulting, where he runs the Americas and can combine his desire to talk about software development and spread the word on rugby and football, and argue that cricket is more exciting than baseball.

Before running the Americas for Ivar Jacobson Consulting, Dave worked for a number of years at Rational Software (now a part of IBM). Dave held many positions at Rational and then IBM, including Product Manager for RUP where he introduced the idea of process plug-ins and agility to RUP. Dave can be contacted at [e-mail].