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Summary: Cannot Install The CD
Review: I cannot install the CD, I am using Windows 2000. I clicked on the setup and nothing happened. Could I get some help.Thanks
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Summary: value if bought at around half-price
Review: I have only gone through 8 of the 32 exams and have already found at least 10 errors. Don't waste your time or your money.
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Summary: Total disappointment
Review: The pompously called "cyber classroom" is just the basic books on UML by the same authors in hypertext format with some tests at the end of each chapter. The voice describing some of the figures doesn't add anything to their understanding and is utterly boring. As a livelier way to get into UML, this Training Course is a failure; unfortunately this is an example of how an interactive "cyber course" should not be done. My advice is - buy the books, read them at your own pace, keeping in mind that however precise they are also terse and totally non-pedagogical (ok, they are User's and Reference Manuals...). And let's hope that a true training course on UML will show up one of these days.
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Summary: Mind numbing
Review: This "Ultimate Cyber Classroom" brought back those days in college where the instructor droned on and on using very precise language whose words had only meaning within the context of the class. (Why couldn't they use the word 'hidden' rather than 'elided'? Same number of characters...) Be fair warned that the reading level of this course is over that of most people. This would have been a far better course if it had spent more time on the why's and how's rather than almost totally on syntax.
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Summary: Mind numbing
Review: This "Ultimate Cyber Classroom" brought back those days in college where the instructor droned on and on using very precise language whose words had only meaning within the context of the class. (Why couldn't they use the word 'hidden' rather than 'elided'? Same number of characters...) Be fair warned that the reading level of this course is over that of most people. This would have been a far better course if it had spent more time on the why's and how's rather than almost totally on syntax.
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Summary: Project Lead
Review: This book do not stand to reputation of UML creators. I bought it because it has been recommended by IBM for their UML test. Now, I want to sell it fast. Any takers?
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Summary: simply do not waste your money on this book
Review: This is a horrible example of a training course. I have no IDEA why IBM recommended it for the 486 test. Unless you prefer reading info online, the CD is useless. The quizzes at the end of the chapters are subpar. You only can hit a button to see the answer after you answer every question. If you get the answer wrong it just directs you to the section of the reading - there is no explanation. You cannot go back to a previous question. The movies are just someone reading the text with a picture of the diagrams already included in the text. Dont waste your time. Get the Craig Larman or Martin Fowler books instead.
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Summary: Warning Defective Software
Review: This package comes with a reference manual and a computer based training course. The training software is defective. The setup program has remnants of the W95.CIH virus and won't install if you are running a virus checker. If you manage to get the product installed, you may find it doesn't work. The course is implemented as a set of html pages that aren't correctly linked so you'll receive many page not found errors as you click through the material. A total rip-off in my opinion.
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Summary: Complete waste of money
Review: This product is basically a chapter by chapter monotone narration of the UML user guide that it is based on. It advertises a multimedia experience, when in reality it is a bunch of poorly written HTML pages with some animated slides. The animated slides consist of regurgitation, almost to the letter, of the text surrounding the slides you would have already read before hitting the play button to run the slide. The practice tests were frustrating to say the least. They were riddled with: incorrect answers to questions, bugs (The wrong diagrams come up in some cases), annoying navigation and poor design. Probobly the worst design flaw was with its handling of incorrect answer feedback. When you got an incorrect answer, it was not specific as to why it was incorrect. It just linked you to the chapter where the topic is discussed. It is ironic that a class that is supposed to teach a tool for doing proper design/requirements gathering/use case creation etc. is so poorly designed from a user experience perspective. This looks like it was put together by a college student for a class. Another flaw in this package is the fact that my virus protection software (Norton Anti Virus 2002) finds a virus every time I try to take the course (Called win95.corrupt). After closer examination of the contents in the box, there is a flyer stating that they are aware of this issue, and not to worry about it, there is no virus. They hint that there was once a virus, but they removed it. I guess its signature is still in the product but it is dormant. I have been purchasing software for 14 years and never have I seen a product present itself this way. Of the hundreds of software packages I have purchased in my career, never have I seen one with these symptoms. So my final recommendation is to stay away from this course. It is boring, poorly written and a complete waste of money!! I returned this product for a full refund.
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