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Additional Literature and Recommendations

Core Recommendations

• Booch, G. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications. Addison-Wesley.

• Budd, T. Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming. 2nd. ed., Addison-Wesley.

• Buschmann, F. et al. Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A System of Patterns. John Wiley & Sons.

• Czarnecki, K. and Eisenecker, U. Generative Programming. Addison-Wesley.

• Freeman, E. and E, Head First Design Patterns. O'Reilly.

• Garland, D. and Shaw, M. Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline. Prentice Hall.

• Gamma, E. et al. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley.

• Martin, Robert. Agile Software Development. Principles, Patterns, and Practices. Pearson US Imports & PHIPEs.

• Riel, A. Object-Oriented Design Heuristics. Addison-Wesley.

Further Recommendations

Patterns

• Beck, Kent Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Prentice Hall.

• Coplien, J. et al. Organizational Patterns http://www.bell-labs.com/cgi-user/OrgPatterns/OrgPatterns?OrganizationalPatterns

• Fowler, Martin. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Addison-Wesley.

• Gabriel, R.P. Patterns of Software http://www.dreamsongs.com/

• Schmidt, D. et al. Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Vol. 2: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects. John Wiley & Sons.

• There is a Design Patterns Homepage: http://www.hillside.net/patterns/

• Brian Foote deals with design patterns in a somewhat humorous way.
  Brian Foote's Paper Index

• GoF patterns in .NET: http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx

• The Design Patterns page of the Portland Pattern Repository: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CategoryPattern

General Object-Oriented Programming

• Meyer, B. Object-Oriented Software Construction. 2nd. ed., Prentice Hall.

Eclipse

• Notes on the Eclipse Plug-in Architecture

Frameworks

• Fayad, M. E. et al. Building Application Frameworks. John Wiley & Sons

• Froehlich, G. et al. Designing Object-Oriented Frameworks. This deals with key issues in the design of object-oriented frameworks. (PDF document)

Specific Object-Oriented Languages

• Korienek, G. et al. Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand. Addison-Wesley.

• Beta is a somewhat "different" yet object-oriented language in the "Scandinavian" tradition of Simula.
  Beta homepage

• C++:
  Understanding C++: An Accelerated Introduction
  Bjarne Stroustrup's homepage

• Java. The Java Tutorial

• MultiJava is an extension to the Java programming language that facilitates multiple dispatch of method calls.
  The MultiJava Project Homepage

• Python is an object-oriented scripting language.
  Python Homepage

• Smalltalk is perhaps, for those who know it, the object-oriented language.
  The Squeak system is a fully complete open source implementation.
  VisualWorks, another Smalltalk system, is free for non-commercial use.

UML

• EclipseUML from Omondo is an Eclipse plugin for creating UML diagrams.
  Omondo Homepage

• ArgoUML is written in Java and should thus be platform independent. It can import XMI files generated with, for example, Together.
  ArgoUML Homepage

• DIA is a "drawing program" for both Linux and Windows systems that also supports creating UML diagrams.
  DIA Homepage

• Poseidon for UML is a plugin for the NetBeans and Forte IDEs.
  Gentleware Homepage

Miscellaneous

• Generating PDF without Acrobat is not really a problem; use GhostScript.

• Model-Driven Software Development.