Re: OOD and C++
In article <1148484787.917762.301800@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Noah Roberts" <roberts.noah@gmail.com> wrote:
arnuld wrote:
-- do i need to learn an OO langugae, like Ruby, before i dive into
C++. i read different posts and Stroustrup's FAQS too. but that left me
with ambiguity. i am not talking of smalltalk. i am talking of
paradigms and C++ is a multi-paradigm language. i dont know too much
about OOD. all i know is that in OOD we can structure our programme
into different data types and then we define operations on those data
types. a class can have any number of instances and i know about single
inheritance and multiple inheritance. except these i do not know
anything about OOD. --
No, learning a different language won't help you in this regard. OOD
takes experience to get a handle on just like programming in general.
Years of use and reading is the only thing that will help you become
good at OO development and design.
Learning a different language probably won't hurt you either though.
I personally learned a great deal about OO design when I started
experimenting with some of the dynamic types languages. A lot clicked
for me. By all means learn C++, but you will also want to cover some
dynamic typed language like Ruby, SmallTalk, Python or the like...
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