Another good book is Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0  By
Jeff Tapper ISBN 0735713804.  Its a good book if your also interested or
presently using Flash.

Brian Knott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Corfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 2 July 2004 9:58
> To:   CFAussie Mailing List
> Subject:      [cfaussie] Re: Suggested Reading
> 
> > What I would really be interested in is a book that covers
> > topics for some of the advanced operations of CF and the programming
> theories
> > behind OOP and related concepts.  
> 
> Unfortunately the only CF book that touches on this at all is
> "Discovering CFCs" by Hal Helms (from Techspedition.com) and that was
> written for CFMX 6.0 so it is a bit out of date (and uses "this" scope
> because there was no better alternative back then - it also doesn't
> use 'var' scope which is essential for thread safety, again because
> 6.0 didn't support it in any meaningful way).
> 
> The bottom line is that if you want to learn OO, you really need to do
> it outside of CF. A good Java book is "Head First Java" -
> http://headfirst.oreilly.com/ - and I also recommend Bruce Eckel's
> "Thinking in Java".
> 
> For more in-depth OO / patterns / best practices stuff, you have to
> spread your net further and start looking at books like "Design
> Patterns Explained" by Alan Shalloway et al.
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201715945?v=glance
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
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