UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition

Applying UML and Patterns : An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development (3rd Edition)

Head First Design Patterns

Uml

Developing Software with Uml: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design in Practice

Format: Paperback
Author: Bernd Oestereich
ReleaseDate: 15 July, 2002
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Rating:

Practical, Introductory, Easy to Read


Level:
Beginning to intermediate developers

Key Dev.
Strength:
Very concise, practical description of OOA/D and UML. Method:
Use case driven, Architecture centric, Evolutional

Example Used:
Enterprise/Business application ( car rental )

Languages:
C++, Java, Smalltalk
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Perhaps the best choise for starting with the UML
Someone seeking for such a book, should check up on: "The Unified Modeling Language User Guide", "The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual" both by the 3 amigos, and "UML Distilled, Second Ed. Surely this book is not the absolute reference for the UML." by Martin Fowler et al.

I gave 5 stars because, to my opinion, the author has catched the main need of someone who uses the UML for the first time; to design/develop software. Formalizations and abstractions are absolutely necessary in real applications, but really destructing during the first steps simply because anything usefull is interspersed in several chapters. On the other hand, the coverage of both the UML and the OO S/W development in this book is definitely not shallow.

"Developing Software with UML" is perhaps the best choise for beginning with UML. It is well-structured, intuitive and easy.

Extremely well thought out and very readable
Discussions on what objects do and don't do are well described. Of the several books I've read on UML and more importantly object-orientation I've found this one to be concise and well thought out. Some of these discussions I've picked up just in my own experience and it was nice to see it formally described in the text.