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Summary: A Good Introduction That Builds Confidence
Review: This is a good introduction to the Rational Rose tool and the Rational method of developing software. A reader should have a prior introduction to UML even though nothing advanced is presented here. What the book does best is build your confidence for tackling a large scale project using UML and Rational Rose to develop the object model. While the book includes some step by step instructions and tracks a development project from beginning to end it is not a definitive guide. The review is very broad brush. Terry Quatrani writes very clearly and for the most part fulfills the objectives that she sets out. There were a couple of points that I could not follow even rereading multiple times and I found myself wanting just a little more explanation of illustrations.
Rating:
Summary: A Good Introduction That Builds Confidence
Review: This is a good introduction to the Rational Rose tool and the Rational method of developing software. A reader should have a prior introduction to UML even though nothing advanced is presented here. What the book does best is build your confidence for tackling a large scale project using UML and Rational Rose to develop the object model. While the book includes some step by step instructions and tracks a development project from beginning to end it is not a definitive guide. The review is very broad brush. Terry Quatrani writes very clearly and for the most part fulfills the objectives that she sets out. There were a couple of points that I could not follow even rereading multiple times and I found myself wanting just a little more explanation of illustrations.
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Summary: This is not the place to start with UML.
Review: Unfortunatly, I tried to learn UML and Rational Rose by using this book. I should have read the preface a little closer, which states that this is not what this book is about.Even after learning about the UML from other sources and going back to this book, I don't know what it trying to teach. The only thing that I could see is that Rational Rose doesn't support the full UML notation and that this book does nothing to point that out. It tries to work around it. Spend your money on other books such as 'The Unified Modeling Language User's Guide' and learn UML first. Rational Rose is then easy to figure out.
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Summary: Good Introduction Book to UML and Rational Rose
Review: When I first embarked on learning UML and Rational Rose, I searched for a book that might help expedite the learning process. Visual Modeling with Rational Rose and UML certainly accomplished that as I reference the book often. UML is difficult to master (Anybody who says otherwise is not telling the truth), and this book kept things fairly simple. If you are trying to learn Rational Rose and UML, then I recommend this book. If you are allready advanced in UML, you might be better served by the UML books recently published by Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson.
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