Question

Although I have a somewhat solid ground on object oriented theory and know how to build something as simple as a tetris / tic tac toe game in a “evolutive” design with no major trouble, I’d like to learn how to take the totally different approach of first designing the system and only them trying to implement it.

I am looking for something that’ll teach me how to take a problem (for example, a tic tac toe game) and learn how to make its uml design (object domain model -> system sequence diagrams and finally communication diagrams).

I’m looking for something like a workbook that has a bit of theory, examples, exercises and solutions (if possible).

I know people generally recommend UML and Patterns but I’ve had it in my OO course and found it awful.

Answer 1

The famous coffee maker problem from Martin Fowler.

• Coffee Maker
• Another to look at
• Interesting problem to solve without procedural code Jeff Bay mentioned it in this post: OOD / OOP Etudes / Code exercises
• Problems with solutions explained. This is very good

Finally buy this book specifically for its treatment of the GRASP principles