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Title: UML and C++: A Practical Guide to Object-Oriented Development (2nd Edition) by Richard C. Lee, William M. Tepfenhart ISBN: 0-13-029040-8 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 30 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $51.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: There are many other excellent books compared to this
Comment: This book is outdated (both first and second editions). It certainly does not teach you UML, it does not teach you C++, nor does it teach you OOAD the right way. I also found numerous errors, even in C++, supposedly their area of expertise.
They confuse between OO technique and developmental process. They keep referring to development process as OO. Typically, OO is combined with UP in software projects. This is not mentioned anywhere.
They also fail to see the forest, instead keep focussing on the trees. For example, there is a top-down analysis approach, and another is a bottom-up analysis approach. You can also do it both ways and come to the middle. Not a mention about this in this book.
They keep preaching about their beliefs. That is annoying. Instead of saying, bottom-up analysis gives rise to more reusable class structure, they go on and on about Taoist philosophy.
Lot of outdated stuff also in there. Who cares for Structured English.
On the whole, reading this book will not help, will confuse you, and could potentially get you started in the wrong direction as an OO programmer/analyst.
There are numerous other excellent books on the market that focus on the OOAD and software development lifecycle. Don't bother buying this one.
The title is also nonsense. There is very little UML in this book. There is very little C++ in this book. It does not show you how to effectiely use C++ when you are grappling with certain design decisions. No mention of design patterns and how they could be represented effectively in C++.
Can't find much virtue in this book honestly. Waste of paper.
Rating: 1
Summary: The worse book I've ever read
Comment: I would give it 0 point if that's available. I think the authors are idots who are not clear about what they wanted to write. Don't buy it!
Rating: 1
Summary: Should be "Impractical" guide UML OOAD with C++
Comment: I was very disappointed with this book. At least through the 150+ pages I struggled through before giving up, UML was barely covered and utilized. What passed for an example was convoluted and confusing. Some bizarre quotes may convey the tone of this book: "This is consistent with our phenomenalist view: ... dialectical process ... we believe the real world of objects is a reflection of social relations ..." "If you take the Eastern, or Taoist, approach to OOA, ... the Taoist (practitioner) ... the focus is on the path rather than the destination" Explaining is-a: "Generalization has its roots in the knowledge-representation paradigm used in ai ... psychological model of associative memory ... representing a semantic knowledge network" "meronymic relationships" "homeomorphic" "anyone who has studied philosophy knows that reality is the state of mind of each individual"
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Title: Object-Oriented Programming in Java by Martin Kalin ISBN: 0130198595 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $69.00 |
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Title: Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm by Lincoln Stein ISBN: 0471247448 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 03 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Unix Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads, Second Edition by Kay Robbins, Steve Robbins ISBN: 0130424110 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson ISBN: 0201571684 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: J2EE(tm) Technology in Practice: Building Business Applications with the Java(tm) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition by Rick Cattell, Jim Inscore, Enterprise Partners, Enterprise Partners ISBN: 0201746220 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 04 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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