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UML in a Nutshell
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Author: Sinan Si Alhir
List Price: $24.95
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ISBN: 1565924487
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (01 September, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 34,748
Average Customer Rating: 2.07 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Almost unreadable
Every time I ... buy a technical book without checking Amazon.com for the reviews I end up kicking myself, and this time is no exception. This book is almost completely impossible to read - it is a tangle of repetitive bullet points torn from some cursed corner of academia. When the author does take the time to write a complete sentence it is riddled with odd parenthetical notes that are less than helpful. And the diagrams, at least in the initial chapters, are arcane, in my opinion rather silly, but mostly just needlessly confusing. I found myself skipping larger and larger sections of the text at a time looking for some island of clarity from which I could learn something valuable without too much squinting and ended up skipping all the way through the book. Of all the topics that should be treated in a clear, straightforward manner, coverage of a modeling language designed to facilitate communication pretty much tops the list - so if you are a collector of irony, this book would make a nice addition to your collection. Otherwise, I'd select another title.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Not a good book
This book is horrible. It tries to be a tutorial, and a reference but succeeds at neither. Instead we get a dense book consisting mostly of bullet points, complicated diagrams and a rambling format which never gets to the point or tells you concisely what you want to know. It is like someone has just cut and pasted the bullet points of their UML training course (extra complicated edition) into book format.I don't suppose UML is *that* hard to understand assuming an author takes you through it in reasonable learning steps, but unfortunately this book doesn't. This is a very poor O'Reilly title.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Bad for UML and O'Reilly
O'Reilly in many ways defines a technology. If there is a O'Reilly book that means it is something you probably want to know. Most of the "In A Nutshell books" have become invaluable and essential for me, but unfortunately this book misses the mark. In many ways this book does more to hurt UML than increase its use. When confronted with this confusing mess, more often than not, people will walk away thinking, UML is too confusing and not a helpful tool.The author babbels on for two chapters without giving any concrete examples, showing the concepts, or demonstrating how it helps you. The diagrams are confusing, for example, the software life cycle diagram. I think the objective of the was author to prove he was smarter than the rest of us rather than trying to help us understand. I want the second edition (assuming it comes out and fixes the major problems) of this book for free because it was a waste of money and is not up to O'Reilly standards. I have certainly bought enough O'Reilly books to make them quite wealthy.
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