Sams Teach Yourself UML in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Joseph Schmuller (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672322382 | ISBN-13: 978-0672322389 | Publication Date: August 24, 2001 | Edition: 2 Sub

Sams Teach Yourself UML in 24 Hours, Second Edition provides hands-on UML experience. Learn to use UML to build a model for any system development project, and understand the UML models that will undoubtedly form the basis for future system development books. Gain the knowledge and the confidence to become a UML champion in your organization by understanding topics such as Object Orientation, Using Links, Associations, and Inheritance, Working with UML Diagrams, Fitting UML into a Development Process, Modeling Deployment, and Modeling real-time Systems. Finally, the book provides a solid skill set allowing you to master an UML-based modeling tool.

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From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself UML in 24 Hours, 2E provides hands-on UML experience. Learn to use UML to build a model for any system development project, and understand the UML models that will undoubtedly form the basis for future system development books. Gain the knowledge and the confidence to become a UML champion in your organization by understanding topics such as Object Orientation, Using Links, Associations, and Inheritance, Working with UML Diagrams, Fitting UML into a Development Process, Modeling Deployment, and Modeling real-time Systems. Finally, the book provides a solid skill set allowing you to master an UML-based modeling tool.

About the Author

JOSEPH SCHMULLER is a Functional Analyst with Convergys. From 1991 through 1997, he was Editor in Chief of PC AI Magazine. He has written numerous articles and reviews on advanced computing technology, and is the author of ActiveX No experience required and Dynamic HTML Master the Essentials. Holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Florida.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 2 Sub edition (August 24, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672322382
• ISBN-13: 978-0672322389
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #308,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #34 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > UML

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89 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars UML you can understand, January 14, 2000

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David Field (Groveland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Uml in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours Series) (Paperback)

Our company is interested in UML, and several people had bought two books by the guys known as The Three Amigos - Booch, Jaconsen, and Rumbaugh (the User Guide and the Software Development Process). I started reading and quickly found that these books moved too far, too fast - the same experience that the others had.

I took a look at the UML books in my local computer bookstore and decided to take a chance with this one. I'm glad I did. If you don't have a heavy Computer Science background, you'll find this to be an excellent introduction to UML.

Schmuller provides a general introduction, followed by examples of all the main types of diagrams. He follows this up with a case study of automating a restaurant. In every instance the author constantly provides examples from the real world, so it's almost impossible to fail to understand.

Schmuller's writing style is great; his background in magazines shows off here, as opposed to the "scholars writing for other scholars" approach of many of the other UML books. The "Twenty-four Hours" format puts the information into bite-size pieces, so you're never overwhelmed with new facts.

People with a heavy computer science background will probably find this book doesn't go into enough detail, but the rest of us will be very happy. I'd suggest that if you had a small amount of programming experience you'd be ideal for this book, but anyone who's had some experience of computers can get a lot out of it.

After I read this book I came back to the Three Amigos books and suddenly found I could understand them. In fact, I could dip into the books at pretty much any point and follow what was happening.

With my new-found knowledge I offered to teach an intoductory course on UML for the people who were struggling with the Three Amigos books, and as I created my outline I realized how well thought-out Schmuller's book is. I didn't have to add much to what he'd written, and I began to realize that his examples must have been carefully chosen to make things very clear.

In short - if UML seems like a hard slog to you, or you just think you need a passing knowledge, get this book. If you find that you want to go further, you'll now have the kind of knowledge that the Three Amigos expect from their readers.

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for the less technical, January 4, 2001

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Bruce Watson (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Uml in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours Series) (Paperback)

I'm a tech writer who used to be a software engineer (10 years ago, before OO programming became popular and long before UML even existed). I just started a job where I'll be using UML content as source material, so I was looking for introductory information (I'm not going to be programming) that was very basic and easy for a less-tech (though not completely un-tech) person to understand. I started with the Three Amigos' "The UML User Guide" and Alhir's "UML in a Nutshell," and got nowhere (I mean *nowhere*) with them. Lacking much of the needed background, I needed lots of understandable examples of even the most basic concepts, and neither had many in their early chapters. (Also, like others who have posted comments on the "Nutshell" book, I found Alhir's writing horrible and very distracting, especially with the ultra-frequent bulleted lists and parenthetical remarks. I became so aware of the bad writing that I often forgot what he was talking about and had to re-read.) Both books assumed that the reader had a substantial background in OO programming and software project management, which I don't have (though admittedly the programmers who would read these books would have this background).

Following recommendations I found here, I checked out this Schmuller book, and it gave me exactly what I needed: simple, basic introductory stuff very fitting for a non-expert who wanted to read, but not write, UML. I'm sure I'm not in the main audience this book was meant for, but in case there are a few others out there who need to just dip their toes in the water of UML and OO programming, this is the book to get.

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introduction to UML and OO modeling, May 22, 2000

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John Amos (Palo Alto, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Uml in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours Series) (Paperback)

I have been a programmer for seven years, but I only recently starting working on projects large enough to warrant detailed design. Although I know quite a lot about object-oriented programming, I didn't know anything about drawing pictures to represent a software system. I read this book in just over six hours--the chapters really only take about 15 minutes to read--and found it to be exactly what I was looking for. It is clear, has excellent examples, and was written at exactly the right level for me.