How to best learn OOP

[iiREDii]

I am looking for a book or instructional to teach myself object oriented programming and/or to generally boost my programming skills beyond where they are. Also if you can recommend a book that teches actionscript 3.0 well... or accomplishes both of these goals...

Any recommendations that translate well to flash?

thanks

[ColbyCheeze]

These are all books I have recently read and I can say that they are simply outstanding. I list them in the order of how good I think they are, even though you should read ALL of them to get the best understanding.

Learning the very basics of OOP:
OReilly Essential Actionscript 3.0

REALLY learning OOP:
Head First - Design Patterns
OReilly Actionscript 3.0 Design Patterns
Advanced Actionscript 3 with Design Patterns

[urbn]

I smell actionscript...

[sirtom93]

I see actionscript. Please refer to the flash forum.

[polym]

At 3/10/08 01:03 PM, sirtom93 wrote: I see actionscript. Please refer to the flash forum.

OOP is general programming.

[Jon-86]

The key word in the sentence folks is ALSO. The first question being about the OO paradigm and then the second about imiplimeting in as. And it wasnt a direct "how do I do this" it was a "can you help me to learn"

So this is fine for this forum, infact more suited a think, but thats ma opinion.

Anyway ColbyCheeze has made some suggestions, I cant really say anything for AS books as I havnt ever looked at one. But what I would say is browse before you buy / rent / whatever you do. The one thing I would say helps you learn any kind of programming is by looking at examples. And trying them out. You sometimes get a better idea ofhow code works by running it and placing trace messages in places to see whats happening where and why.

Using a debugger on basic programs might also help you with that. Just to see how variables are passed between objects for example.

[iiREDii]

thanks for the help. I will try to find one of those books to start with.

[Julestar]

Deitel and Deitel is the book I'm currently using in college. It provides full explanations along with working examples. Perfect for the OOP newbie and even someone new to programming. If you're familiar with basic concepts such as arrays and function skip to the fun chapters on inheritance, polymorphisms, and composition.

[iiREDii]

At 3/15/08 09:43 PM, Julestar wrote: Deitel and Deitel is the book I'm currently using in college. It provides full explanations along with working examples. Perfect for the OOP newbie and even someone new to programming. If you're familiar with basic concepts such as arrays and function skip to the fun chapters on inheritance, polymorphisms, and composition.

Thanks I will check out that too!