I'm still learning OOP. Any tips on staying unbiased and pragmatic?

I keep reading about defficiencies and issues with languages. Specifically, I'm learning PHP and Javascript, but I see it everywhere. This question arose while reading Javascript:开发者_Python百科 The Good Parts and PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice. While understanding and avoiding easy pitfalls, is there a way I can learn the fundamentals of OOP and discover solid programming practices without overlooking important areas (or simply becoming jaded)?

I'm sure I'll have plenty of opportunity to learn from mistakes!

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You can't stay unbiased. Pragmatic yes. You want to be biased in your opinions of different languages, that way you know which language/features to use to solve a problem.

I would recommend for OOP that you follow SOLID. Another reference would be Pragmatic Programmers. My personal preference for writing code is TDD.

Just remember, don't be afraid to be a beginner and learn something new. Just yesterday on SO I put my opinion out there in comments and learned something very valuable concerning deployment of libraries.

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First, make sure that you learn C if you haven't already. It is essintial to learn the basics of pointers and memory management to really understand what you're doing. I made the mistake of learning C later and my work suffered for it.

Secondly, there are many languages considered to be very good at object-orientation.

I'd reccomend: Ruby and Go