Object-Oriented Software Construction Book - Principles & Design Patterns for Developers | Learn OOP Concepts for Programming Projects & System Architecture

Before now, I've only had "programming for dummies" books that take you through basic syntax, data types and some library objects and is generally very suitable for beginners. This is not one of those books, but if you have some basic programming chops, it can be a very rewarding experience. The book presents a set of challenges experienced by using a structured programming paradigm and shows how they are solved by object-oriented programming. It also "develops" an object-oriented "notation" that (surprise, surprise) turns out to be Eiffel, a very streamlined, carefully constructed, elegant object-oriented programming language. By going through the careful reasoning behind each design decision behind Eiffel, the book actually gives the reader the knowledge he or she needs to make better design decisions, even while programming in languages that aren't Eiffel (if for some strange reason you still want to use something else to write software).