Applying UML and Patterns

Rating:
Summary: padded, little content
Review: Larman, Booch and Fowler are the best

at writing well padded books.

A computer science professor recently

stated my views in few well chosen words.

He said: "I read Grady Booch's first book three times

and asked myself what I had learned. I decided nothing!"

I recommend the Wrox book by Muller, scientific

and to the point.

Rating:
Summary: padded, little content unless you are swayed by verbosity
Review: Save your money. Buy Schaum's Outline's UML for around $14. At least it will have some content. Another good book is UML by Muller.

Larman, Booch and Fowler are famous for padding books.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent tutorial for applying UML in the Real World
Review: The author does a good job of showing how to apply UML to a realistic development process with timeline constraints. Unlike most UML tutorials, this book teaches which models are essential and which are just "nice to have" or even completely unnecessary.

As well, the example application and chapters on design patterns provide an great review of basic and intermediate OOAD.

My only complaints are the somewhat dated Java technology used (I think this has changed in the new edition) and how the author often repeats himself (but this does make the book very clear and a quick read).