[racket] Whither ProfessorJ

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Wed Jan 18 15:42:03 EST 2012

For objects Craig Larman's "Sailboat Book" is awesome because it
covers OOAD in addition to objects. Without that minor detail it would
just have been another data structures book.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Raoul Duke <raould at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Jordan Schatz wrote:
>>> But as someone who employees developers I place very little
>>> value on knowledge of Java and wish students would learn more functional
>>> programming, and more then OOP design patterns.
>> Thank you. That's the purpose of HtDComponents, fp programming even in the context of an OO world --
>
> on the other hand, there exists a significant OO camp that - at least
> to my simple mind - makes a decent argument for starting with the
> behaviour/mu, not the data/nouns. small ex. cf. e.g.
> http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/CoffeeMaker.pdf
>
> sincerely.
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