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Whenever one is begining the learning of OOP my book tells me of UML, at first, I thought it was simply a planning procedure for writing OOP, but later found out there are actual clients for it, certain UML diagramming programs, am I correct with this? My book claims it so, and if there are these programs, do I need to really use UML for basic purposes, just trying to learn how to implement OOP.

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yes UML is good, its use for notations purpose of OO. you can use it.
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Is it how I thought it was, an actual program which helps diagram the class divisions so you can visually see what you need to write?
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exectly, one the software that can do this type of stuff is Rational Rose, using this you can make use cases, activity diagram, class diagram etc.
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Thanks for the assistance.
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No problem its ok,
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just make sure you don't get too obsessed by UML.. it is not panacea.
yes..it is good for communicating idea in OOP world....but from what I've read and experienced it is not worth it to obey the standard strictly.
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Thanks, that response is fair enough, thats sort of where I wanted someone to take it, because, I know so little of OOP.
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