Book excerpts:

Object-Oriented System Development is written for professionals involved in the development of medium, large, and distributed systems. Rather than subscribing to a particular object-oriented method, the authors give instructions on how to put key object-oriented concepts to work in software construction. Many examples, including a full banking system, are developed throughout the book to illustrate the process of object-oriented software development from analysis, through design and into implementation.

Each chapter concludes with exercises. Although one can read this book while bypassing the exercises, they are recommended. Some exercises ask you to operationalize the concepts in this book. Others are quick 'thought questions', sometimes even silly sounding ones, that may lead you into territory that you have not explored.