Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2000 and UML

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Summary: Not very useful
Review: This is quite nicely structured and descriptive, but it offered nothing new, at least to me. You'll better go with the (original) UML user manual and the information offered by Rational on Rose. It further touches only a few aspects of Rose.

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Summary: It's a good beginner's book.
Review: Together with the Rose tutorial comes with software, you are going to start using Rose fast. Just wish the book comes with the example model in a CD or somehow users can get from internet. That will save lots of trouble and I can look into details not mentioned in the book and do some thinking "why she modeled it this way?"....and why she has this object/class, isn't it already in...?

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Summary: Overpriced and Overvalued
Review: You pay [too much] for a How-to Book. No explantions/examples about object-oriented programming (as UML defines it). The idea is good: you start with an example and refine it on the way. But consuming half a page to show me the actions for a specific task underestimates my I.Q. level. If you want a book that explains briefly the menus of Rational Rose it's a right choise. If you want a book that explains how to develop programs using UML, search elsewhere.