- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne (1 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0072224606
- ISBN-13: 978-0072224603
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.7 x 1.9 cm
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Essential skills for first-time programmers! This easy-to-use book explains the fundamentals of UML. You'll learn to read, draw, and use this visual modeling language to create clear and effective blueprints for software development projects.
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Essential Skills--Made Easy!
With this learning tool, you can read, model, and use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for software design, analysis, and development. Follow the proven Beginner's Guide pedagogy and learn to graphically represent your software ideas in order to create a well-structured and more stable product. Discover use-case diagrams and object-oriented concepts in the design and analysis of your software. Reduce development time by creating proper design and architectural documents. Understand activity, sequence, and class diagrams, and check system architecture with integration diagrams. Whether you are a programmer, engineer, software developer, software architect, or computer science student, start using UML today with help from this essential learning guide.
Designed for Easy Learning:
- Modules--Each concept is divided into logically organized modules (chapters), ideal for self-paced learning
- Critical Skills--Each module opens with the specific skills covered in the module
- Mastery Checks--End-of-module reviews test knowledge using short-answer, multiple-choice, and fill-in-the-blank questions
- Ask the Experts--Q&A sections throughout are filled with bonus information and helpful tips
- Progress Checks--Quick self-assessment sections check your progress
- Projects--Practical exercises show how to apply the critical skills learned in each module
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One of the questions that most novice developers ask is, why do I need to model software? Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Dangerous book, very missleading
6 April 2004
Format:Paperback
The book is very consumable. It's easy to follow and easy to learn from. For the new to UML reader it seems like such a relief to find a book that describes it so easy. This is where the problem starts, the book is simply incorrect in a lot of cases. Some examples below:
It describes the RUP as waterfall. Superimposing workflows on phases. The author thinks that the inception phase is analysis. This could essentially drive a project to failure. It's obvious the author has never successfully implemented RUP.
Some of the diagrams are wrong (i.e. The extension points are on the wrong use cases) and the emphasis on diagramming use cases instead of writing them is an obvious novice mistake.
Larman's Applying UML and Patterns is just as simple to read but is actually correct. Please at least review Larman's book before purchasing this terrible title.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
An excellent UML intro
18 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback
This is a very well-written intro to UML. The book is concise, without any fluff, and immediately useful. If you want to learn UML and don't want to yawn through the 400+ page spec or lug around some oveweight, over-appendixed book, I strongly suggest checking this one out. The diagrams are simple and clear. The examples make sense. While I didn't really take any of the short quizzes after each section, in retrospect I think they can be helpful for some. As far as "bad", there really isn't any.
For experienced developers new to UML, this book also goes nicely with "Agile Modeling".
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Awesome for beginners, excellent for future quick reference
1 Jun 2003
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I tried learning UML by using the more popular books, but had difficuly absorbing the information mainly due to time constraints. That's why I absolutely love this book - very short, great chapter layouts and plenty of examples. In fact, the examples serve excellently as a quick reference when I need to figure out how to model something. The disclaimer is that my job does not require super-professional and perfect design documents, and if you're in a similar situation I would strongly recommend this book.
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