Chapter 11. UML and Programming
So far, I have discussed a lot of notation. One large question looms: How does a programmer actually use the UML as part of the daily grind of programming? I'll answer this by talking about how I use the UML when I'm programming, even on a small scale. I won't go into a lot of detail, but I hope this will give you a sense of what you can do with the UML.
Let's imagine a computer system designed to pull together information about patients for a hospital.
Various health care professionals make observations about patients. This simple system will allow someone to get information about those observations and to add additional observations. As this is a short book, I will wave my arms about the database links and the ...
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