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Summary: VERY DENSE
Review: Hi, I'm going to storyboard the use case scenarios of my abstraction, and such stuff. If you don't understand what I just said, you won't understand this book.
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Summary: How to get lost between the object theory and C++
Review: I had bought that book from amazon com along with the amazing book : Building Buisness Applications using C++. The Booch Book is just a Theory during six months i am trying to apply what is written to practical usage unfortunatley it won't do the best of all is the other book at least it teaches something usefull not thoughts from a man setting at another Planet so sorry for wasting my money.
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Summary: Great Book -- Definitely Not for Beginners
Review: I have read the first few chapter of this book at my local book store and I must say that Booch has done a very good job explaining how to create OO systems and why they are better than other systems. But be forewarned, this book does not show you how to program, it does not even contain any meaningful code. This book teaches you how to design software, not code it.
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Summary: Complete Content but Completely Hard to Read!
Review: I opened the book with hot enthusiasm, but after a hard struggle with Grady-type wording, I finally skip a lot of pages just to ease my dizzy head. The content is excellence however. I find it very informative on how to identify and organize objects. It's most essential! Booch can really separate the structured analysis world from object-oriented analysis one. Thumbs up for that!
This book good for every manager who wants to start managing an object-oriented software project. But it could become a lot better if Mr. Booch consider a co-writer. I recommend him for James Kowal. Mr. Kowal has a clear and distinctive way in explaining structured analysis. Maybe--teamed up with Mr. Booch--they can make Mr. Booch's book more readable for the rest of us--managers.
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Summary: Over rated
Review: I read this book about five years ago from cover to cover, omitting a couple of the extended examples. Honestly, it did not make me significantly better at designing programs or analyzing requirements. It's been said there's no silver bullet for designing programs, but considering this book's wide reputation it ought to be helpful. And I don't think it helped me except I guess in a subtle slight deepbackground way. Certainly there are things in the book that are worth knowing but this is not the best place to get them from, imho.
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Summary: It just doesn't work
Review: I was far too generous in a previous review. Even as a former senior corporate programmer-analyst for a decade, I couldn't understand even one page of this book and I retained zero. This book reminds me of most of the teachers and instructors I had since my youth: dismal failures who should find something else to do for a living. The vast majority of them would get the very lowest success report card rating as a teacher: F-Minus. I took an online algebra refresher the other day, and I was amazed at how well organized, clearly and simply presented, and how completely I was able to understand and retain the subject matter for the first time in my life. That is the mark of an excellent instructor. Mr. Booch may be a bright guy, but he should leave the instruction to somebody else. My rating: F-Minus. Granted, it's not an easy subject to explain; nevertheless, this book fails miserably to help the student clearly grasp, understand, and retain the object oriented methodology. Very few have the true gift to teach. Save your money and find some other book or way to learn this subject matter. My 12 year old niece was complaining about her math instructor. I think that it's high time students of all ages should be able to hand their teacher a report card, at least on the way out the door or through the mail.
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Summary: No JAVA just for C++ programmers
Review: If you are a working C++ programmer this may be interesting but I found it "yeah, what else?". Most of thoughts are sought of easy & if you were disciplined could come up with the insights yourself. Good for an entry level C++ working programmer though, not for an advanced programmer like myself.
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Summary: Sergio L. Fonseca
Review: If you want to understand OO(object orientation)/OOA/OOD, this is THE place to start. Booch writes in a clear, concise and interesting way. That's very hard to do in technical writings. The chapters are organized in a very thoughtful and correct way. In many ways, his Booch notation (presented in this book) is even better than the current version of UML for understanding how the notation applies to classes and objects. You may know C++ or Java language implementations, but the best foundation is a generic knowledge of OO. This book goes a long way to presenting this knowledge. Go for it!
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Summary: An important book
Review: Ignore the remarks about ego or over-rated, I found this book not easy to understand for a beginning student of Object Oriented Methodology, and I will have to re-read it. This is a very important book for all concerned, and is often quoted by Steve McConnell in his equally important "Code Complete" and "Rapid Development." Grady Booch refers quite often to real world object-oriented application models, to thinking along that line for solving real-world problems, and uses plenty of code examples from several different OOP languages including Smalltalk and C++. The goals of the book as outlined in the preface are to provide a sound understanding of the fundamental concepts of the object model, to facilitate the mastery of the notation and process of object-oriented analysis and design, and to teach the realistic application of object oriented development within a variety of problem domains. Last time I looked, this book is a listed selection for ICCP CCP certification, the mother of all certifications, and the choice of U.S. Armed Forces and Government Agencies. I personally prefer more interactive type of books that ease the student into the subject.
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Summary: Gives a good OO perspective.
Review: Its quite high to start, but definitely a book to be considered for the long run.Though the examples are good ,I wish they were some smaller examples in more detail.
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