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Summary: suresh.kannan@cad.gatech.edu
Review: A very disconnected book and very light on content. This is definitely not for people who want to learn UML. A tutorial for Rose should take the reader from scratch to building the application. By placing the content between being a UML intro and Rose tutorial and not continuing along a single thread Ms. Quattrani lost my interest right from the beginning.
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Summary: Great intro to concepts needed to visualize software systems
Review: A well needed introduction for the majority of IT professionals and organizations out there who are just beginning to look towards Visual Modeling as a cure for their devlopment problems. Terry does an excellent job of guiding the reader through the fundamentals of visual modeling and proves that you don't have to be a UML guru to begin utilizing visual modeling. IT professionals have to start somewhere - start by reading this book!
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Summary: Barely a good Intro -- some errors!
Review: After reading the book, I initially thought it was a good value. Then I tried to construct my own model using the student version of Rose 4.0. I really struggled. The book does not show the BIG picture and there is not enough detail to figure out how some of the diagrams are related.Also I think I found at least one error in the models. I tried to construct a component diagram similar to her Figure 11-10. Rose would not let me associate any of the interfaces with Professor.exe.
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Summary: Falsly advertised.
Review: Bad book. Bad investment. Simply, a rip-off. I won't rate it more than 2. I also rate those who gave it more than 2, 2.
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Summary: Wow ! Wish all OO books were so clearly & cleanly written...
Review: For its sheer simplicity and ease-of-read, IMHO, Terry's book is probably one of the best OO books I have ever come across. I especially like the way in which she cleanly separates methodology and the design tool (Rose).
Great job !!!
Jimmy Mohsin
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Summary: Appears to be adapted from classroom handouts.
Review: I believe this book was created to support classroom hands-on training. The material is over-simplified, and is cookbook in nature. I imagine a Rational trainer using this book to march a group of neophytes through a one day overview of the product. No substance is present.
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Summary: Much too skimpy
Review: I bought this book and would advise you not to do so. It is much too skimpy. There is too much fluff. There are much better books and articles around. This book touches on a bunch of terms and techniques without explaining them in sufficient detail. I thought that by reading this book I would gain a good idea of how to use Rose, but such was not the case.
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Summary: Fails to cover any topic in depth
Review: I feel this is a easy going readable book. One can go through the full book perhaps within a couple of hours. But this book lacks in the depth of coverage. It neither covers UML fully, nor covers Object Oriented Design concepts. It, in fact, tells most of the relevant steps of OOAD but only tells skin-deep concept of OOAD. One can perhaps read this book only to familarize how to use Rational Rose in the design process.
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Summary: Good entry point for Rational Rose and UML
Review: I never seen Rational Rose before. I didn't know UML. When I installed Rose, I did need a rapid way to use it and an intro to UML. Well, I choosed this book and in few days I developed my first application using design approach insead of never died procedural approach. 20 days in analisys (mixed with book reading). 30 days in coding (without the help of "Build Code" Rational Rose option). An excellent result that surprised all my collaborators. If this is what you are looking for... Buy this book! I learnel UML concept too. And for the future, I beleave that I must read some other book on UML. This will improve my design skill. For a rapid approach to the tecnology involved, this book is good. Hence 4 stars.
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Summary: Does exactly what Preface states - INTRO to vis_model.
Review: I strongly disagree with other reviewers who rated this book just "1 star" or "2 stars". I feel they picked a wrong book in the light of what they were looking for. That's pretty much their fault, or Amazon's fault for not publishing a good online description of the title. Here is what book's preface says: "[this book is NOT:] - a tutorial on all the ins and outs of analysis and design using UML - a tutorial on all the details in the Rational Objectory Process - an explanation of all the notation and semantics of the UML - an abridged explanation of the UML Notation - a book on software architecture or C++ design (...) This book is an introduction to the concepts needed to visualize a software system process, a notation, and a tool." IMHO, the book achieves the purpose it states in 100%. It explains what visual modeling is in principle. It ligtly explains the notation. It walks the reader through the creation of a model of! a software system using Rational Rose. It is written in nice clean English (can't say that about mine ;-) ). It contains screenshots and provides Rational Rose GUI digest and sample auto-generated code in the Appendix. It does not obscure the picture with excruciating detail or complexity of the example software system (the author consciously chose to forget about some details of the sample software system for the sake of clarity). Basically, you read the book on Saturday, digest it on Sunday, read it again over the next week (in a subway or where ever, the book is an easy read), realize where you messed up on your current project and how the Rational Rose tool could have been used to eliminate your problems, and buy another book on Visual Modeling next Saturday. This time a thick one. Terry did a good job. If you need an easy read to get a picture on what Visual Modeling is because you heard a co-worker mention "Rational Rose is cool", get the book. Otherwise r! ead Rose help files or buy some thick volume on UML and &qu! ot;tri amigos'" work.
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