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Astract: This textbook mainly addresses beginners and readers with a basic knowledge of object-oriented programming languages like Java or C#, but with little or no modeling or software engineering experience - thus reflecting the majority of students in introductory courses at universities. Using UML, it introduces basic modeling concepts in a highly precise manner, while refraining from the interpretation of rare special cases. After a brief explanation of why modeling is an indispensable part of software development, the authors introduce the individual diagram types of UML (the class and object diagram, the sequence diagram, the state machine diagram, the activity diagram, and the use case diagram), as well as their interrelationships, in a step-by-step manner. The topics covered include not only the syntax and the semantics of the individual language elements, but also pragmatic aspects, i.e., how to use them wisely at various stages in the software development process. To this end, the work is complemented with examples that were carefully selected for their educational and illustrative value. Overall, the book provides a solid foundation and deeper understanding of the most important object-oriented modeling concepts and their application in software development. An additional website (www.uml.ac.at) offers a complete set of slides to aid in teaching the contents of the book, exercises and further e-learning material.

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Astract: We steadily aim at improving our first year´s university course Introduction to Object-Oriented Modelling. To that end we explore how technological teaching support may be used to extend the classical classroom experience for the students. For several years, we used Web-based out-of-the-box e-learning tools for providing additional teaching support. This solution works well, but has some severe restrictions. In this paper, we show how to overcome these restrictions with a custom implementation. Further, we are now starting to explore mobile facilities as offered by smartphone Apps as well as social media facilities in order to enhance the learning experience in our modelling course. We report on our first experiences with these kinds of technologies.

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Astract: Wozu UML @ Classroom? . Für erste Einblicke in die Grundlagen der objektorientierten Modellierung. . Für einen raschen und erfolgreichen Einstieg in die Welt der UML. . Für einen verständlichen Überblick über die Konzepte von UML. . Für ein effektives und effizientes Erlernen der grafischen Notation und Regeln von UML. . Für das Kennenlernen der wichtigsten UMLDiagramme: Anwendungsfalldiagramm, Klassendiagramm, Zustandsdiagramm, Sequenzdiagramm und Aktivitätsdiagramm. . Für ein besseres Verständnis des Zusammenspiels der verschiedenen Diagramme. Profitieren Sie von jahrelanger Erfahrung mit der UML in Lehre und Forschung!

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Astract: Lecture videos are slides enhanced with the audio recording of the lecturer's talk. Such lecture videos offer numerous advantages to the students as well as to the lecturers themselves. The former may organize their studies in a more flexible way by consuming the content of a lecture anytime and at any place as often as they want. The latter do not have to give the same lecture over and over again and may use the saved time for personal contact to the students. In this paper, we report on our experiences with using lecture videos in the course Introduction to Object-Oriented Modeling offered by the Business Informatics Group (BIG) at the Vienna University of Technology. We shortly review the structure of the course and discuss the creation and integration of the lecture videos. For the evaluation of this approach, we performed an online survey where the students could provide feedback. Parts of the results of this survey are discussed and included in the paper.