[Tfug] UML packages

[Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com]

beautiful Gabe.  I'll check the books out at the library and make my 
determination later.
Thanks.

Respectfully,
Liz, Data Base Administrator,
Methods Engineering





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Liz,

I dont know that you have to "learn" Visio, if you are familiar with other 
microsoft tools like word, or excel, "learning" visio should be fairly 
intuitive.
I am assuming that what you are really wondering is, is it worth to learn 
UML. 

>From the varying responses already given I think you can surmise that it 
really depends on whether: you need for your job; you want to just lean it 
for its on sake, the environment you find yourself in (ie. academic, 
research, production, corporate, etc); etc.

I think you would have to make that determination on your own, if you do 
decided to go ahead there is the UML bibble:


UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd 
Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) 

although I like the O'Reilly books better

UML 2.0 in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
UML 2.0 Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

hope this helps,

Gabe
Code Monkey
Generic Defense Company Inc.


On Jul 28, 2009 11:42am, Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com wrote:
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> >> Is it worth it to learn how to use it for professional development?
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> Personally I have no experience with UML, except for creating UML-like
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