Amazon.com description: Product Description: This thoroughly object-oriented book takes the conventional topic of data structures and totally transforms it, leading you through the process of designing software components that are elegant, interchangeable, and reusable. Using Eiffel, the only pure object-oriented programming language designed specifically for software engineering, the book will teach you techniques for designing object structure interfaces and inheritance hierarchies. You will find detailed analyses of all the familiar data structures - arrays, lists, queues, stacks, trees, etc. - but the emphasis is on abstracting these structures to create well-designed, reusable components. You will learn how to create a number of different implementations to accomplish a specific task and analyze the advantages and trade-offs of each. In addition, the book illustrates the Design by Contract component design methodology originally developed by Bertrand Meyer, Eiffel's creator.Numerous exercises and sample applications will help you assimilate all of the information and sharpen your object-oriented programming skills. Written for conventional programmers who want to learn object-oriented programming through a familiar medium, or more experienced object-oriented programmers who want to improve their skills and techniques, this book will help you gain a deeper understanding of the theory and application of component design and the foundation of object-oriented programming. 0201634805B04062001