Uml

The Object-Oriented Approach: Concepts, Systems Development, and Modeling with UML, Second Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: John W. Satzinger
ReleaseDate: 09 January, 2001
Publisher: Course Technology
Rating:

Good Concepts Overview

I found it quite good at covering the concepts. I read this book as part of a Professional College Course.
Two small deficiencies: It falls short in the explanation of how these concepts are applied, and it dedicates one chapter to implementation with Java (Which doesn't help when you are just learning from a language like VB)
Advantages: It is a relatively quick book to read, if you want to learn about Object-Oriented concepts (less than 200 pages without the chapter on Java). It also has fairly good real-life analogies, and a case study.
I recommended it for beginners or those looking at making a move to OOP from structured programming.
If all you want is the quick and dirty on OO, this is the book.

Written by lecturers...?!
It definitely does what it sets out to do. This book is okay to start with. I am an MCSD and have eight years experience in software development and I was of the opinion that the examples used in the book, were not well thought out and showed lack of experience on the part of the authors, both of whom are attached to universities, which reminded me of the saying: "those who can't do, teach".

Easy read, but a bit too simplistic
I just wish it went a little deeper, and I found some of the authors design choices suspect to say the least. I was able to complete this book in two evenings, and it does serve as a good introduction to UML and object oriented programming. I just didn't get how a video (one of the classes explored) could search for other videos. This should be a function of a container class (video_collection or something), yet the authors treated the video class as an instance of a video and a collection at the same time. If you're looking to get started learning OOP and UML, this is a decent start, but just don't expect much more than the basics.