Mastering UML with Rational Rose

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Summary: Large piece of printed help files, not a real book
Review: 1000 pages of printed help files don't allow to call this bulk of paper as a book. It is not a hard job every 5 lines to repeat : "Push this button or open that menu", it is more harder to write real book that allows to understand core of Rational Rose product.

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Summary: Large piece of printed help files, not a real book
Review: 1000 pages of printed help files don't allow to call this bulk of paper as a book. It is not a hard job every 5 lines to repeat : "Push this button or open that menu", it is more harder to write real book that allows to understand core of Rational Rose product.

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Summary: UML Guide Book ... At Last!
Review: As a beginning user of Rose and the UML I found this book to be perfect! The examples displayed in the book have given me a thorough grasp of Rose and the UML. I was able to use the Table of Contents and go right to the answers that I was looking for. I highly recommend this book for everyone who wants a practical users guide.

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Summary: UML Guide Book ... At Last!
Review: As a beginning user of Rose and the UML I found this book to be perfect! The examples displayed in the book have given me a thorough grasp of Rose and the UML. I was able to use the Table of Contents and go right to the answers that I was looking for. I highly recommend this book for everyone who wants a practical users guide.

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Summary: You just need to know what its for.
Review: I bought rose from somebody without user manuals. This thing fits what I need 100%. I don't need or want a UML walkthrough, I want a freakin user manual. This is the next best thing since those are so hard to get

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Summary: You just need to know what its for.
Review: I bought rose from somebody without user manuals. This thing fits what I need 100%. I don't need or want a UML walkthrough, I want a freakin user manual. This is the next best thing since those are so hard to get

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Summary: Know what you are looking for!
Review: I bought this book as I wanted to familiarize myself with Rose. To be able to get the most out of this book, you need to be familiar with standard practices in business modeling and UML. Though the book teaches you a few things about business modeling, it is a special case of a general instance.
If you are familiar with UML, OOP concepts and business modeling AND you want to use Rose to achieve a particular objective, you can use this book. A complete lack of exercises makes this book a reference at best. This book is mostly about pointing-and-clicking and is a how-to reference for Rose.
Each chapter in the book is a how-to about something or the other; how to add classes or class diagrams, how to add use cases and actors etc. So, to be able to put all of this to good use, you need to know that you need to add use cases and also where you need to add them.
One reason this book is around is perhaps that there is very little competition! I think there are only one or two other books out there!
On the whole, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who is looking to learn UML or wants to get a good intro to Rose.

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Summary: Great.
Review: I downloaded Rose 2000 and found the examples very useful. However, I had no idea how to start with a blank page and use Rose to develope a new product. With this book, I was able to. I learned about Use Case diagrams and how to use them effectively. It noted some pitfalls to watch out for that I'd already fallen into. One guys writes above that its just full of screen shots. Well they proved very helpful: Rose has a habit of not letting you do something unless exactly the right thing is selected. The screen shots helped me figure it out. Without them I'd just assumed that button/menu didnt work with that object. I have no formal OOP training, but many years of experience. I know why Rose is useful. This book is a step-by-step familiarization with Rose. Great.

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Summary: Excellent & organized
Review: I found this to be a very helpful text in the learning of Rose. The graphics are essential for understanding the theory of UML as well as Rose, because both are very visually oriented. Decidedly a useful tool.

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Summary: Easy FAST Instruction
Review: I got OO Project Management , Project Management with UML, Applying UML and Patterns, UML Reference By Grady/Booch, Software Requirements by Microsoft Press etc. I have not touched a single one of them (with the exception of skimming over the last one which helped). This book saved my life and replaced all of them (I may use the others to make my library look more imposing). I used to just stare at Rose 2000 wishing I could understand or use it. Then I got this book. Before you start reading this book, ensure you have Rose 2000 running in front of you. This is what a Technical book should be. All through college I had to put up with books that implied things, skipped steps and assumed that some theorem or the other was "internalized". I had copious notes next to every proof, it was like deciphering every sentence! This book is nothing like that. It is like having an instructor over your shoulder who will guide you through the steps even if you are tired and sleepy (you will learn). .. If you want a more abstract book there are thousands of those out there. After reading those you can say "I know the MEANING of rational rose, I know the history of UML and the motivations behind it and how it works and all the syntax of the language" but you will not have USED the language or the application. If you want a practical book, get this one.

The science of computing and mathematics - the science of system architecture is best served when we can actually produce results (not "knowing" UML but using it)...