I'm looking for a tool in which I can draw highlevel overviews of proposed system architectures at a class level.
I'd probably be looking for a UML editor. I wouldn't be looking to tie myself to a language here, but I mostly work in C/C++, Java and Python in a Linux environment.
I'd also appreciate any advice or book recommendations in software engineering.
Thanks in advance.
Have you looked at DIA for diagramming?
As for books, the list is endless.
Duplicate... of two questions
And as a side note.. my favorite is Enterprise Architect (eval edition) – Nix
I am using Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems for last more than two years and I am happy. This is very good and light tool. Earlier I user Rose and other IBM-Rational tools. I found them unsatisfactory.
Hello for drawing architectures, there are NOT very good tools, and much less for linux, But you can use a generic uml design tool in order to make some architecture scketch. For linux one of the best is ArgoUML (as is said in case-tools.org and it is open source) another tools in linux here: http://case-tools.org/linux.html after see the ones for linux try the multi platform tools
good luck.