CITATION

Kimmel, Paul. UML Demystified. US: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2005.

UML Demystified

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Published:  October 2005

eISBN: 9780071486712 0071486712 | ISBN: 9780072261820

Book description:

There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects

UML Demystified explains how to read, model, and use UML to create well-structured, stable software products. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam. Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, this is a lively and entertaining brush-up, introductory text, or classroom supplement.

The fast and easy way to learn UML

Get started using UML in no time using this easy-to-follow guide. UML Demystified shows you how to visually plan, develop, and analyze software projects with this powerful modeling language. Step-by-step instructions with lots of examples help you learn quickly.

You’ll begin by learning the basics of UML. Then you’ll get details on use cases, activity diagrams, interaction diagrams, class diagrams, statecharts, components, and deployment diagrams. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this book will have you programming in UML right away.

Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, UML Demystified is your shortcut to mastering this powerful software modeling language.

This one-of-a-kind, self-teaching text offers:

  • An easy way to understand UML

  • A quiz at the end of each chapter

  • A final exam at the end of the book

  • No unnecessary technical jargon

  • A time-saving approach

Paul Kimmel (Okemos, MI)

is the Chief Architect and a founder for Software Conceptions, Inc. He has been designing and implementing object-oriented software since 1990 and has a dozen or more years of experience with modeling languages and was an early adopter of the Unified Modeling Language. Paul has helped design and implement solutions using the UML for some of the larges coporations in the world from International Banks, Multinational Telecommunications companies, Logistics and Shipping companies, Department of Defense agencies and national and international governmental groups.

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