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

UML 2.0 in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

UML 2 for Dummies

Uml

Learning UML

Format: Paperback
Author: Sinan Si Alhir
ReleaseDate: 01 July, 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:

Best introductory book to UML I found.
I also had plowed thru 3 chapters of UML Distilled with no "light bulb" going off. I had read several introductions and tutorials on UML off the 'Net. I just wasn't getting the correct perspective, I kept thinking, 'yeah. so?' I think I was getting too much information on how to use them and not enough first principles and a structure to think within. I finally turned to this book as the next attempt and hit paydirt. I recommend this to pure newbies, particularly if you floundered in other references as I did.

It does seem very simplistic at first and the repetition in the building of the concepts can be boring, but I wouldn't have changed it. It seemed to me what was necessary. I did read it in chapter chunks about 1/day. I wouldn't recommending reading it all at once. I think a non-newbie would not find this book highly useful. I'm not sure it's something I'll go back to again and again, but I feel a lot more ready to go back to the other books.

I don't think too much hit me at once or was confused by changing the diagrams over and over again. Worked just fine for me. Gave me a sense of continuity and relationship on how the various drawing types give the different perspectives of a project.

I had a project in mind I wanted to work with and as I went thru the book I did little drawings of my own. I would recommend that you do that as well as you go thru this book.

I liked having the solutions to excersizes in the back that I could immediately verify whether I was on the right track or not.

terrible waste of time

Buy UML Distilled by Martin Fowler instead. It's not that there isn't good information in this book, it just that you'll waste alot of your (presumably valuable) time getting it! You'll find yourself doing a lot of skimming just to find the crucial points of a paragraph or chapter. Excellent book.

Must have UML book
. I believe this is a must have UML book, very clear, very useful as an introductory book and reference book, also has excercises with answers if you want to practice.