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Summary: Excellent
Review: One Book, Two Months of reading, & code writing, Clearing SCJP2 with 90%. Go for it....
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Summary: Be a Sun Certified Programmer
Review: You can do practice with this book and you you can easily score more percentage mark in Sun Certified Programmer Exam. Do more practice,do hard work. (God with us only) All the Best
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Excellent book. Goes above and beyond what is required in the test. Helps make sure you really understand the concepts (as opposed to memorizing the Roberts/Heller book)
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Summary: Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform in 14 days!
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The exam is a 'closed book' exam, which means that you need to remember quite a lot of Java syntax and features in the core packages. As a C++ programmer with minimal experience in JDK 1.1 - I decided to learn this language/platform correctly - ordered this book and locked myself in a room for 14 days (It was exactly(!) 14 days between the day I received this book in the mail and the day I took the prometric exam.)
The result:
- 62 pages of notes on 'squared' A4 note-paper, averaging at about 5 pages per exam objective.
- A first-time pass with a result of 83% - passing every section.
If you compare this to Sun's recommendations of 1-3 courses followed by at least 3-6 months of post-course experience, you can only shake your head. Conclusion: Save your money and just do it.
Please excuse me if I'm bragging a little in this review - but it's a true story and I'm surprised that it could be done when looking in the rear view mirror - and by the way, don't worry if you don't pass the test-exam in the book - it's much harder than the real thing.
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Summary: Detail
Review: I have one year of professional Java experience. This was the only book I studied before the certification and I passed on the first try.The book is very detailed and it explains all the topics you need to know in depth. The pratice exam was a little bit harder than the ordinary exam. A tip: Make sure you study the early "easy" chapters good. I concentrated on the most difficult topics and went faster over the basics, and on the exam I did very good on the difficult questions and less good on the easy ones. The questions can be very detailed, and easy things you think you know might not be so obvious when you are confronted with multiple choice questions. Another thing I learned from the exam is that it was more open text questions than I anticipated. The book states that you will at most get a couple of those questions, but I had 7-8 of them. I really recommend this book if you want to be a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform!
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Summary: This book rocks!
Review: I bought the book to prepare fot the SJCP exam and have ended up using it as my #1 goto book for java reference. It is very complete, and is the first book I grab when in a pinch. Scott
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Summary: comprehensive and essential
Review: If you're going to take the Programmer Certification Exam and you think you're ready... think again. byte b=1; b = b+1; // does not compile. byte b=1; b += 1; // does compile. why? Covers the intricacies and subtleties of the language with good practice questions after each section. I doubt if I would have passed without this book. The writing is excellent to boot. Software Engineer, Los Angeles
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Summary: Helps to keep focus
Review: A great aid to have if you are trying to be a Sun Certified Programmer(JAVA 2).The book takes you through the finer points of java language very well.It even covers the IO topics that are now a part of the exam objectives.I scored 89% on the latest version of this exam by sticking to this book and by developing programs.
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Summary: Extensive coverage. Maybe too much
Review: If your primary concern is to become a Java Certified Programmer, then there are other books that will better prepare you than this one. The book contains double or more information of its contemporary's and while it's great to find out every little detail you might be inundated with information you would never need to know for the exam. I recommend The Exam Cram over this one in preparing for the certification exam.
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Summary: Excellent book for learning language and for certification!!
Review: I didn't have any experience on Java. Used this book and Billy Brogden's Exam Cram for studies (2-3 months). I scored 88% in certification exam and I owe most of it to this book. (I scored 75% in the mock exam on the back of this book which was the best mock exam that I took.) This book is very good in clearing any doubts on the language fundamentals. The chapter on I/O handling and file handling was little confusing for me, but anyway I couldn't find good info on that anywhere....I had doubts on that even when I went for the exam. This book has plenty of good questions after every topic and they cover almost all of the important points in that section. Overall an excellent book !!
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