OOP Demystified by James Keogh - Learn Object-Oriented Programming Concepts for Beginners | Perfect for Software Developers & Computer Science Students

As someone who worked many years in mainframe (COBOL, Natural) programming, the transition to OOP has been a bit of a head-scratcher even though I have been coding in VB.Net for the past 8 years. I haven't seriously delved into this book (yet); however, I did spend a good amount of time reading the table of contents and then thumbing through the book. What I like is that it doesn't focus on just one language and has some excellent real world examples. I'm using this book to help get me through some of those barriers of OOP that make mainframe types wrinkle up their faces and tilt their heads sideways.* * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update 8/21/2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * *I finally found the time to sit down and read this book and have to say it is great. Some concepts and techniques are dated as more developers are embracing SOLID principles, design patterns, and Test Driven Development. That being said, the concepts related to Object Oriented Programming are presented in a clear manner. The novice, as well as those of us who transitioned from procedural languages, should have no issues grasping the concepts. I found my foray into C# helped understand the examples as the syntax uses C++/Java code. The person who only has exposure with VB may have some issues because of the syntax.