I think uml is not a efficent way for me to pick up information. I learn them in the university and all, but don't think i actually used them really on my jobs.

I think uml is not a efficent way for me to pick up information. I learn them in the university and all, but don't think i actually used them really on my jobs. When I look up a design pattern, I try to understand it from a uml diagram, but almost immediately quickly jump to wikipedia for example code, as i consider it way more digestible. Not a coincidence, since i deal with code every code, with uml diagrams almost never. For states, I like plain old state diagrams. Same goes for creating design: I prefer sketching code in notepad in a some kind of java/c++/python frankenstein over drawing uml. I only find the the Doxygen generated inheritance hierarchies to be usefull.