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The Mutable Compendium of Object Oriented Wisdom

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• OO wisdom is the main entry point for course material.
• OO culture is the list of people, places, phenomenons and programs that produced OOD.
• OO tools is a list of a software engineer's arsenal.
• Resources is a list of the available resources.
• What is Bad Design?
• Professionalism is a discussion on professionalism in software engineering.

Things to Think About

• The beginning of wisdom for a programmer is to recognize the difference between getting his program to work and getting it right. -- M. A. Jackson, 1975
• Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers. -- Henry Louis Mencken
• Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? (PDF)
• Bad Engineering Properties of OO Languages
• The DCI Architecture: A New Vision of Object-Oriented Programming
• Encapsulation: Python Properties vs Java Access Modifiers - Has Python got it wrong?
• iBum
• Can patterns be patented? should they be? US Patent 6163813
• Quotes

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