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Developing Object-Oriented Software For The Macintosh 1992

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Developing Object-Oriented Software for the Macintosh: Analysis, Design, and Programming is a book by Neal Goldstein and Jeff Alger in Addison-Wesley's Macintosh Inside Out series, copyright 1992, first printing January 1992, ISBN 0-201-57065-3 (Library of Congress QA76.8.M3G643 1992, card number 91-29046). Its technical reviewer was Steven Weyl, and the foreword is by Scott Knaster.[1] The numbered pages run to 347, with the index from p. 329; Open Library lists 350 pages.[2]

The book presents the authors' "solution-based modelling" method for object-oriented analysis and design, with its own visual design language (VDL), worked through Macintosh examples including a model-railroad CAD program and a payroll system.[3]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[3]

  • Foreword by Scott Knaster, p. xv
  • Acknowledgments, p. xvii
  • Part One, Object-Oriented Software Development for the Macintosh, p. 1
    • 1. Introduction, p. 3
    • 2. Object-Oriented Programming: The Technologist's Perspective, p. 25
    • 3. The Folklore of Object-Oriented Software Development, p. 49
    • 4. Sample Applications (Why Aren't They Easy?), p. 65
    • 5. The Way We Think, p. 91
  • Part Two, Solution-Based Modeling for the Macintosh, p. 109
    • 6. The Visual Design Language, p. 111
    • 7. Solution-Based Modeling, p. 139
    • 8. Analysis Part I: The Business Plane, p. 169
    • 9. Analysis Part II: The Technology Plane and Beyond, p. 205
    • 10. Design, p. 243
    • 11. Programming, p. 281
  • Appendix A: Manual Database for Solution-Based Modeling, p. 319
  • Bibliography, p. 323
  • Index, p. 329

What this book does not contain

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It is a programming book. It has no service procedures, parts lists, schematics or electrical data for the Macintosh; Apple's repair documentation is in Category:Apple Service Source. The hosted scan is 355 pages, including the covers and the publisher's series and order pages.

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References

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  1. ↑ Neal Goldstein and Jeff Alger, Developing Object-Oriented Software for the Macintosh (Addison-Wesley, 1992), title page, copyright page and contents (PDF pp. 3-6).
  2. ↑ Open Library, Developing Object-Oriented Software for the Macintosh, record OL7407937M. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Goldstein and Alger, Developing Object-Oriented Software for the Macintosh, Contents, pp. vii-xiv (PDF pp. 6-13).
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