Book provides good basics for people wanted to know it in simple words and samples.



But it has some problems with terms definition. I was really confused by the definition of term

Encapsulation - is a technique of linking together attributes and procedures to form an object. IT IS TERRIBLE MISTAKE, Booch and other says it is about another thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_science).

Encapsulation is the hiding of the internal mechanisms and data structures of a software component behind a defined interface, in such a way that users of the component (other pieces of software) only need to know what the component does, and cannot make themselves dependent on the details of how it does it.





Book provides Sensible view on real-world problems of OOP implementation, this is really cool, I have many doubts why my programs can't strictly follow OOP paradigm, and I found the answer - because OOP is not a silver bullet for real world applications development. Sometimes it brings overcomplexity which is hard to maintain. And which does not satisfy application's business goals.



But mostly this book is lack of reasonable big samples, especially in Real-world modelling chapter. So a lot of theory is not proved there with good samples.