Class diagrams tool suggestions?
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| Hi everyone, I'm getting back into coding and would love to know what some of you do/use for class diagrams and such? If the tool could create Monkey compliant code that would be a bonus :) Thanks! |
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| You're not going to get a tool to generate Monkey code, unfortunately, but you can certainly find software to do full ERD and/or UML diagrams. Here's some decent tools I've tried. Of these I personally find StarUML to be the easiest (version 1, at least). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unified_Modeling_Language_tools StarUML: http://staruml.io/ (previously free, now proprietary) Modelio: http://www.modelio.org/ (free) draw.io: https://www.draw.io/ (free, not strictly for UML) |
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| Two tools I use are Pencil and Paper. I prefer 5mm quad ruled paper such as the 1J5 school maths exercise books. I use to prefer pens such as .25mm Gel Ink type but I now prefer a sharp dark pencil. Keeping a workbook with diagrams and todo lists gives you a nice rest from the screen, which again, as I get older.... |
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| A while ago I used Dia with moderate success for a C++ project. Never really went full-on UML -> code generation, just drawing them. Pen and paper does usually win. |
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| +1 for StarUML. I'm not much of doing diagrams, but when I have to, StarUML is there to save the day. And it's free. But avoid version 2, which is ugly, and a nightmare compared to the first one. |
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| Scrawl them on paper. Then throw it away. |
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| - Enterprise Architect (Version 12 News) -- Generate Source Code -- Importing Source Code Of course overkill for MX alone (drawing, maybe source generation). ;) Better when used with C++/C#/Java/etc (Round-trip engineering). |
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