Archive for May, 2005

On CRC Cards and Design

Saturday, May 14th, 2005 | Development | No Comments

Sometimes you just wish you had paid a bit more attention back then in the first few semesters of studying Computer Science, but oh no, you were too busy/young conquering the world. As such it has been that I have been overlooking The CRC Card Book for nearly five years now, where it has been standing vigilantly on my bookcase. Since I have gotten more interested in teaching object-oriented methodologies over the past year and some, partially due to my internship, I figured it was on high time to take it down from its place on the shelf and read through it. I was not disappointed.

The book takes you through the object-oriented terms, strategies for evolving good designs, bringing the users into the process, and guiding everything along nicely by role-playing use cases, etc. While the ideas seem sound, psychologically speaking, I cannot help but feel that the described test cases work out just a bit too well. However, I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised and see that it can indeed work in a setting where people’s understanding of object-oriented design is rather rudimentary.

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