Rating: 
Summary: A thorough book for Rose covering UML
Review: This book gives you all the knowledge you need to model using Rational Rose. In doing this, it covers large areas of modeling using UML covering most of its basics and concepts.The book, however, focuses more on the use of Rose than it does on UML itself. If you are already familiar with the concepts of UML, then this book is all what you need to know how to make use of Rose in your UML modeling. If you're new to UML, then you'll get its basic concepts and some practical advice, but nothing much more than that. The language is clear and the content is presented in a very detailed easy-to-grasp way. However, many pages are wasted in step by step walkthroughs for accessing functions and features (and their alternative paths), you'll find many of these steps repeated again and again throughout the book, which isn't something I didn't like that much (after all, common sense is assumed to be a prerequisite that must be satisfied before attempting software modeling). And that's why this book is relatively long in size but takes very little time to finish. Overall, this is a great book for new modelers and Rose users, it's much better than the official Rose manuals. I'm glad I've got this one in my library. -Mokhtar M. Khorshid
Rating: 
Summary: Terrible, Useless, ultra-simplistic, over priced
Review: Wow, where do I start.
As a Sr. Software Engineer who routinely mentors others in OOAD using Rational Rose I was *extremely* disappointed with this book. I have come to the conclusion that the only reason this book sells is because there are only 2 or 3 books on the market that cover this subject (UML with Rational Rose). In fact, this book has inspired me to write one of my own on the subject as I am confident any other book would be orders of magnitude better than this one.
Much of the book is filled with fluff such as screenshots of how a GUI menu works and instructions detailing how to use a pop-up menu; no doubt, justifying the ... price tag on this paperback puppy. It seems the authors are writing for an audience which has not used a word processor or any other GUI-based application.
Of all of the technical books dealing with a variety of subjects over the years, this is the absolute worst - bar none. Readers can be certain, any non-trivial UML or Rose questions they have will *not* be answered in this book.
Perhaps, if you are an absolute absolute newbie to UML and Rose, and GUI based tools (complete with menus and all), then there may be some benefit from this ... book. You certainly will learn how to select items from a menu bar, as this lesson is repeated again and again. ...P>I have, however, found a good use for the included cd.
I use it as a frisbee for my cat.
Rating:
Summary: Terrible, Useless, ultra-simplistic, over priced
Review: Wow, where do I start.
As a Sr. Software Engineer who routinely mentors others in OOAD using Rational Rose I was *extremely* disappointed with this book. I have come to the conclusion that the only reason this book sells is because there are only 2 or 3 books on the market that cover this subject (UML with Rational Rose). In fact, this book has inspired me to write one of my own on the subject as I am confident any other book would be orders of magnitude better than this one.
Much of the book is filled with fluff such as screenshots of how a GUI menu works and instructions detailing how to use a pop-up menu; no doubt, justifying the ... price tag on this paperback puppy. It seems the authors are writing for an audience which has not used a word processor or any other GUI-based application.
Of all of the technical books dealing with a variety of subjects over the years, this is the absolute worst - bar none. Readers can be certain, any non-trivial UML or Rose questions they have will *not* be answered in this book.
Perhaps, if you are an absolute absolute newbie to UML and Rose, and GUI based tools (complete with menus and all), then there may be some benefit from this ... book. You certainly will learn how to select items from a menu bar, as this lesson is repeated again and again. ...P>I have, however, found a good use for the included cd.
I use it as a frisbee for my cat.
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