The Cat as a Metaphor in Object-Oriented Software Development

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Hayim Makabee

booch-bookGrady Booch is a software development guru who wrote one of the most important books about Object-Oriented Programming: “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications“. In his book, Booch has wonderful illustrations using a cat as a metaphor for some of the main OOP principles. I bring here some of these pictures that certainly may serve as a source of inspiration.

Systems and Sub-Systems

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Abstraction

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Modularity

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Encapsulation

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Persistence

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Other people have also adopted the cat as a metaphor for software development. Below is a very nice cartoon from the site “Sandra and Woo“:

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About Hayim Makabee

Veteran software developer, enthusiastic programmer, author of a book on Object-Oriented Programming, co-founder and CEO at KashKlik, an innovative Influencer Marketing platform.
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6 Responses to The Cat as a Metaphor in Object-Oriented Software Development

  1. Carlos Correia says:
    October 4, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    Definitely, one of greatest (and should be mandatory to all Developers) of Software Engineering. Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson, IMHO the fathers of Software Engineering.

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  2. Carlos Correia says:
    October 4, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    Extremely different of the OOAD and “The Unified Software Development Process”, but still funny and nice to explain to our childs what do “we” do is Robert Sabourin book “I’m a Bug”: https://www.amazon.com/I-am-Bug-Robert-Sabourin/dp/0968577407

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