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Here's a nice commentary on what it takes to actually learn OO:

About an hour ago I finished David West's Object Thinking. It's a great book and a must read for anyone who thinks that he or she knows object oriented development. He saved me from the clutches of the formalists and structured programming. Of course, I still have to convert the guys at work but at least I'm aware of the dangers. I thought I was doing OOP alright but it turns out I was misled by the formalists. So now I'm into Smalltalk (Squeak) to teach myself real object oriented ways without the bounds of an object oriented programming language in disguise (Java, C#). It's pretty different but I like it and see that there's a whole new way to create software that the world is seemingly conveniently ignorant of.