Chapter 2
Describing Your Program with UML
In This Chapter
Moving up to UML and modeling with it
Designing with diagrams
Going through iterations
Stepping through phases
Performing workflows
The ancient people knew something that we don’t know. Instead of wasting their time writing these big, long sentences and descriptions, they used hieroglyphics, pictures that just got right to the point. One picture = one statement. It wasn’t until the twentieth century that people in the computer world started getting back to their ancient roots and realized that maybe there was something to be said for all those drawings and pictures. One day, while working late, a small group of researchers realized that a nifty way to describe software is through drawings. And thus they came up with the Unified Modeling Language, or UML for short (pronounced, well, just You-Em-Ell).
In this chapter, we talk about what UML is and how you can use it to model your applications. We give a brief overview of the ...
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