List of Sidebars

Chapter 1: Object Thinking

The Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis

Behind the QuotesDr. David Lorge Parnas

Behind the QuotesChristopher Alexander

Behind the QuotesWard Cunningham and Kent Beck

The CRC Card Approach

Forward ThinkingIntroduction

Chapter 2: Philosophical Context

Behind the QuotesAlan Kay, Kristen Nygaard, and Bjarne Stroustrup

Forward ThinkingMetaphor and Initial Stories

Forward ThinkingAn Observation

Behind the QuotesRobert L. Glass

Rejecting Mysticism

Chapter 3: From Philosophy to Culture

Greek and Roman

David A. Taylor and Convergent Engineering

Behind the QuotesEdsger Wybe Dijkstra

Behind the QuotesEd Yourdon and Peter Coad

Forward ThinkingA Problem of Reuse

Forward ThinkingCommunication and Rules

Chapter 4: Metaphor: Bridge to the Unfamiliar

Behind the QuotesBrad Cox

Behind the QuotesGeorge Lakoff

Forward ThinkingA Vignette

How Many Objects?

Behind the QuotesPhilippe Kahn

Forward ThinkingHey, Coach!

Chapter 5: Vocabulary: Words to Think With

Forward ThinkingIts Not a Code Smell, But

Forward ThinkingRefactoring Stories

Chapter 6: Method, Process, and Models

Behind the QuotesAdele Goldberg

Forward ThinkingReview

LIMTLow-Income Mortgage Trust

Chapter 7: Discovery

Domain Anthropology and Management

Subsidized Mortgage Company

Another ExampleSome Objects from an Air Traffic Control (ATC) System

Chapter 8: Thinking Toward Design

Object Cube Idiom

Glyphs

Widgets, Forms, Reports

Chapter 9: All the Worlds a Stage

Systems and Artifacts

Architectural Patterns and Objects

Chapter 10: Wrapping Up

Why Databases?