Best introductory book to UML I found.

I had read several introductions and tutorials on UML off the 'Net. I also had plowed thru 3 chapters of UML Distilled with no "light bulb" going off. I just wasn't getting the correct perspective, I kept thinking, 'yeah. so?' I think I was getting too much information on how to use them and not enough first principles and a structure to think within. I finally turned to this book as the next attempt and hit paydirt. I recommend this to pure newbies, particularly if you floundered in other references as I did.

It does seem very simplistic at first and the repetition in the building of the concepts can be boring, but I wouldn't have changed it. It seemed to me what was necessary. I did read it in chapter chunks about 1/day. I wouldn't recommending reading it all at once. I think a non-newbie would not find this book highly useful. I'm not sure it's something I'll go back to again and again, but I feel a lot more ready to go back to the other books.

I don't think too much hit me at once or was confused by changing the diagrams over and over again. Worked just fine for me. Gave me a sense of continuity and relationship on how the various drawing types give the different perspectives of a project.

I had a project in mind I wanted to work with and as I went thru the book I did little drawings of my own. I would recommend that you do that as well as you go thru this book.

I liked having the solutions to excersizes in the back that I could immediately verify whether I was on the right track or not.

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