UML 2 For Dummies or Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X

UML 2 For Dummies

Author: James A Schardt

• Uses friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style to help readers learn to model systems with the latest version of UML, the modeling language used by companies throughout the world to develop blueprints for complex computer systems
• Guides programmers, architects, and business analysts through applying UML to design large, complex enterprise applications that enable scalability, security, and robust execution
• Illustrates concepts with mini-cases from different business domains and provides practical advice and examples
• Covers critical topics for users of UML, including object modeling, case modeling, advanced dynamic and functional modeling, and component and deployment modeling

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	UML and System Development	7
Ch. 1	What's UML About, Alfie?	9
Ch. 2	Following Best Practices	19
Pt. II	The Basics of Object Modeling	37
Ch. 3	Objects and Classes	39
Ch. 4	Relating Objects That Work Together	61
Ch. 5	Including the Parts with the Whole	83
Ch. 6	Reusing Superclasses: Generalization and Inheritance	93
Ch. 7	Organizing UML Class Diagrams and Packages	111
Pt. III	The Basics of Use-Case Modeling	129
Ch. 8	Introducing Use-Case Diagrams	131
Ch. 9	Defining the Inside of a Use Case	147
Ch. 10	Relating Use Cases to Each Other	161
Pt. IV	The Basics of Functional Modeling	175
Ch. 11	Introducing Functional Modeling	177
Ch. 12	Capturing Scenarios with Sequence Diagrams	189
Ch. 13	Specifying Workflows with Activity Diagrams	213
Ch. 14	Capturing How Objects Collaborate	227
Ch. 15	Capturing the Patterns of Behavior	247
Pt. V	Dynamic Modeling	259
Ch. 16	Defining the Object's Lives with States	261
Ch. 17	Interrupting the States by Hosting Events	277
Ch. 18	Avoiding States of Confusion	293
Pt. VI	Modeling the System's Architecture	313
Ch. 19	Deploying the System's Components	315
Ch. 20	Breaking the System into Packages/Subsystems	339
Pt. VII	The Part of Tens	359
Ch. 21	Ten Common Modeling Mistakes	361
Ch. 22	Ten Useful UML Web Sites	371
Ch. 23	Ten Useful UML Modeling Tools	377
Ch. 24	Ten Diagrams for Quick Development	383
	Index	393

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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide Series)

Author: Steven Schwartz

If you're like many people, you wouldn't dream of turning on your computer without also instantly (or almost instantly) launching at least one of the applications included in Microsoft Office. This task-based guide recognizes that and gets down to business fast, taking you step-by-step through all of the key features of the Microsoft Office 2004 suite for Mac OS X: Word 2004, Excel 2004, PowerPoint 2004, Entourage 2004and MSN Messenger Version 4.0. If you're a beginning user, you'll appreciate the friendly, visual approach to all of Office's word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, calendaring, and email features. And if you're an Office veteran, you'll relish the coverage of Office 2004's newest features (many of them exclusive to Macs): Compatibility Reports, which identify and correct discrepancies between different versions of Office documents (including Mac and Windows versions); Word's Notebook Layout View; Excel's Page Layout View; and much more.