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Title: UML Explained by Kendall Scott ISBN: 0201721821 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38
Rating: 2
Summary: Needs more substance
Comment: This book starts pretty well, but then you realize that it won't really take you anywhere. He abuses the use of "references to previous and future chapters" over and over, many of them are absurd, it almost seems that he had no material and wanted to "fill" the page.
He does use a language that is "readable" to people with no computer background, but that is exactly were is going to leave you: with no real UML background.
If you are looking for quicker and solid results check out "Sams: Teach yourself UML in 24 hours", I normally don't by any "short cut" book meaning "24 hours!", but the way this book was written is an excellent way to provide a good background, foundation, hands-on, technical and practical use of the UML. If you don't have an Object Oriented Design background, this books gives you a good start on it as well.
Rating: 1
Summary: Unintelligible for the most part
Comment: Unless you're intimately familiar with the software development process, look elsewhere for an explanation of UML. The author's writing style is much too abstract, leaving the reader wondering what he is talking about much of the time - a major waste of time. Time and again he introduces unfamiliar terms, then "explains" them in yet more unfamiliar terms which are meaningless to those of us "outside" UML.
Rating: 5
Summary: The only UML book that's readable
Comment: I have the UML User Guide, UML Distilled and this book. I got this book the last, and I only wished I had it as my first UML book! The other UML books are very technical, dry and boring. They package two much information in two few words. Sometimes I feel like I have to read each sentence several times to figure out what they are trying to say. Don't get me wrong, I am no novice OO (object-oriented) programmer: I have more than five years of industrial experience with OO programming (that's not including my experience with these languages in college and graduate school) and I have two industry-recognized certifications. Also I have use Rational Rose (if you are looking at this review, you should know that it is for). However, I never finished reading the other two books as I always either got bored or frustrated after reading a few pages. I knew most of the concepts in UML, yet I still felt that some concepts were still somewhat fuzzy to me and that's why I bought this book.
Reading this book, on the other hand, is a breeze. It is like reading Harry Potter (OK, maybe I am exaggerating a little bit). Once I picked it up, I just couldn't put it down. It is very concise (just 129 pages), but covers almost all the important areas of UML. It defines every term (there are so many of them in UML!) in a clear, easy-to-understand manner. Yet, it is not dry or boring: it uses a real-life example throughout the book to make all the terms easy to grasp. I finished reading the book in less than a week. Now I feel much more comfortable with UML, and I will certainly keep this book as a reference. This is simply the best UML out there, as I said, I only wished I read this book first so I wouldn't waste all those hours in frustration and boredom.
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Title: Designing Flexible Object-Oriented Systems with UML by Charles F. Richter ISBN: 1578700981 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 15 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (2nd Edition) by Martin Fowler, Kendall Scott ISBN: 020165783X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 25 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: The Unified Process Explained by Kendall Scott ISBN: 0201742047 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Web Design in a Nutshell by Jennifer Niederst ISBN: 0596001967 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems (6th Edition) by Efraim Turban, Jay E. Aronson ISBN: 0130894656 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $120.00 |
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