37 Creating a Paradigmatic Shift into the Object-Oriented Perspective

Alan Shalloway, Boeing and Net Objectives

Convention Centre
Room 13

Many companies are finding the transition to object-oriented development slowed by many developers' inability to shed their structured background. Developers with a structured background require a paradigmatic shift into the object-oriented perspective to speed up their effective use of this powerful technology. This tutorial takes a systems thinking approach, and contrasts structured and object-oriented methods to allow participants to view things from an object-oriented perspective and to permit further learning of OO methods without the hindrance of older (structured) methods. After this shift, additional object-oriented concepts are presented.

Participants in this introductory tutorial will understand the difference between the structured perspective and the object-oriented perspective. By contrasting these perspectives, the participant will be able to see possibilities in object-oriented design not available in structured programming.

Attendee Background: Participants should be familiar with software development, but need no experience in object-oriented development methods.

Alan Shalloway has been working with object-oriented technology since the early 1980s. Since that time, he has worked as both a consultant and a developer of vertical software in several industries. He is currently consulting with Boeing in assisting their transition to object-oriented technology. Alan's training method focuses on creating a paradigmatic shift to allow the participant a new way to view their current development challenges. Alan has found that using design patterns to illustrate basic object-oriented principles allows participants to grasp these concepts more quickly than standard training methods. His forthcoming book, "Using Design Patterns to Learn Object-Oriented Technology," should be published later this year. Alan has a Masters in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Other tutorials on foundational topics are:

4: Concepts of Object-Oriented Programming
51: Introduction to Visual Modeling and the UML

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