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Summary: Excellent Reading, a little difficult
Review: This book provides Excellent reading, a great base for understanding not only UML syntax and semantics, but also concepts and utilization. The book is not easy to learn, but for those experienced and dedicated, I would recommend this over _ANY_ other UML book.
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Summary: Great Theory Poorly Described and Lacking
Review: The concept of UML is a great one and while the authors are great, the book is not. Like the Strousoup C++ it stinks. Just because they developed the idea doesn't mean they can write. The books reads like an Academic book. They try to counteract this with a catchy example at the beginning of each chapter, but fail to explain UML detail in any breadth. At the end of the book I am left feeling like UML is great, but I'm tired, frustrated, and am not quite clear how to use it in any applications -- only that I should.
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Summary: The Foundation For All Other UML Reads
Review: For those who wish to learn the UML, this is the first book they should buy and read. Those looking for practical examples will be disappointed. It covers all basic aspects of the language in a well-structured, albeit dry, manner. Ideally, this book should be used as a reference manual in the classroom (we used it in a Masters level course and it was very helpful). Otherwise, it is a most appropriate reference manual, especially if you use it to complement other UML texts.
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Summary: An academic, readable UML book.
Review: This book is quite wordy but otherwise readable "academic" UML.
Would help user more if author shows more of UML-Java/C++ mapping as most dev can feel a lot more for code than abstract UML diagrams. This book is mostly for concepts. It teaches you the "What" of UML, not "How" to use it.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is an excellent book, especially for people new to UML. I was not convinced about the importance of UML, until I started reading this book. It is well-written, consistent and easy to understand, with a plethora of examples. I'd highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Very Good Introduction to UML
Review: This is one of the best tutorials I have seen for the UML novice. It is one of two books I would recommend, the other being Fowler's "UML Distilled". That book presents a bare-bones guide; this one is a lengthier tutorial, with more on the why's and wherefore's of UML.
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Summary: Horrible, disorganized reading don't waste your time.
Review: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide is absolutely horrible for teaching purposes. The assumption that the best books are from those who designed the UML language, is of course, flawed. Someone who can very well write or design a structured modelling language may not be able to grasp the concept of instructional development to create a coherent, effective teaching manual. The method in which they design each chapter, as some reviewers have noted is in a very programmer style approach. Every chapter basically deals with a single topic that is introduced in a simple manner, the topic developed, and then concluded. However, this makes for a very inconsistent reading content, as many of the chapters hardly give any segue into the next chapter. Most of the chapters feature redundant material, and often fails to build on the previous chapters in a coherent way. Even as an object oriented programmer, while some of the topics are easy to follow, a lot of the text is still totally disorganized and not suitable for a making this a book to learn from. Most of the chapters have extremely simple examples that won't be of any help to experienced programmers. However on the other end, most of these simple examples are not explained at all for beginners. This book never builds upon a single example throughout the book, and that's a huge mistake keeping the reader from focusing on a personal reference point and ignoring the ability of the reader to build on the past chapters. The chapters tend to give a rough description of a UML problem that must be solved, then discusses the components relevant to the chapter, and then a graphic example with little discussion of the example itself. If you can't thumb through this book, here's a VERY (EXTREMELY) typical example of the UML "Notes" on each page. Opening a random page of this book, right in the middle, I've hit chapter 15. The assumption should be that if I'm on Chapter 15, the book should really only discuss items from at LEAST chapters 1-4. But on a SINGLE page I have ELEVEN notes referencing me to different chapters of this book: Chapters 4, 9, 19, 27, 4, 9, 25, 26, 16, 27, and then 9 again. If you'll notice, on this single page, 6 of the chapters are further ahead then the reader has learned, 4 of them are a full TEN chapters ahead of the reader's current knowledge! When reading these reviews, keep in mind to look for the opinions that talk about how the information is relayed to you as a reader, not just an outline of what's in the book. If everything was in the book, but you couldn't read it, what's the use? If you think this book is bad, you should see their so-called "Multimedia" learning package.
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Summary: repetitive repetitive and lacks good examples
Review: I should have believed those reviewers who said it was repetitive. Not just re-re-reiteration which can be useful sometimes but exact cut and paste duplication from one paragraph to the next. This book could have been half as long without the repetition. Also it needs some better more realistic examples to illustrate how the UML works outside of some extremely simplistic situations. I should have gone with my first instincts and bought UML Distilled but I got suckered into thinking this book would be more in depth but instead it is just puffed up.
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Summary: It's a better-than-average user guide - not a tutorial
Review: It's really a user guide, not a tutorial. In this sense, it's not so read-able as a book (Who will read a user guide of something from cover to cover? Very few, I guess) However, if you just pick whatever piece you are interested, and spend some time really digging into it, you will find many good insights. In this sense, it's much better than average user guide. I personally find the "Common Modeling Techniques" section of each chapter very useful.
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Summary: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide
Review: oh great this is the great introductory book .which must be reviewed by every one.this is the book given by rational university in their 4 day training module.really it's good book for studying(;-< not for reading) and understanding abc's of umlfrom three ambigos.any how thanks for authors for giving such a great book.i had read full book from first to last.i din't find any page not usuful.so try to refer this book at least once.
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