Conclusion
This chapter gives a very brief overview of the UML notation used in this book. As stated in the introduction, UML is a very complex and important topic, and the complete coverage of UML requires a book (or several) unto itself.
UML is used to illustrate OO examples throughout this book. You do not need UML to design OO systems, but UML is a tool that can be used to assist in the development of OO systems.
Learning UML in detail is one of the steps that you should take after you are comfortable with the underlying OO concepts. However, as happens so many times, the chicken-and-the-egg conundrum presents itself. In an effort to illustrate some of the examples in the book, it is very useful to use UML.
It's good to introduce a little ...
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