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A Programmer's Guide to Java (tm) Certification

A Programmer's Guide to Java (tm) Certification

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A clear, readible, comprehensive book.
Review: I used this book to study for the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform exam. I found all of the material in the book to be clear and accurate. It provides a great basis for learning the language. The author takes care to explain concepts clearly without insulting the readers intelligence. The emphasis in the book is on being clear and comprehensive. He includes supplemental material (like the precidence of operators) which is not directly tested on the Java 2 exam but is necessary to understand and apply the language. The supplemental material is identified at the beginning of each chapter but with the exceptions of Applets, Swing, and Java Doc, I do not recommend skipping it. The book provides very good review questions about the language at the end of each chapter and a practice exam at the end of the book. However, the Java 2 exam is very difficult and I recommend taking additional practice exams from other sources.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The perfect Java 2nd book
Review: This book describes each topic of java in many details. It is the BEST book for programmers who want to master in Java, and not only for Certification Test. However,don't expect to be able to follow this book if this book is your first Java book.
In my opinion it is the best second book about Java.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A good concise book to prepare for certification
Review: This is the only book I used to study for the exam. It covers each of the topics necessary for the exam plus more. It doesn't add any flowery words, jokes, or fluff to increase precious preparation time. All the topics are concise and to the point. The questions after the topics and the practice exam (and their explanations)help to make sure the points are understood. They are, however, more difficult than the real exam. After reading the book, I took the sample exam at the end of the book and only got 20 out of 59 correct, yet I comfortably passed the real exam. Taking other example exams outside of the book was also a great help.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great book for certification
Review: This book is really helpful for certification.The chapter on IO is very good. I used just this book ( I bought other book by William Stanek but never opened it) and online tutorials and passed the exam with 81%.
This book focus in details. Almost all the chapters are really useful except the one on java.lang.util which is very short and does not cover everything. You will need other resources also for this particular objective. Threads basics are explained very well but the syncronization part is not explained in details and it has become a must in exam.
Overall this book with few online materials is enough for exam.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: You'll need more than this book to pass....
Review: For starters the questions in the book are NOT like those you will encounter on the exam, so don't think your doing yourself an immense favor by focusing on them. The book gives you a smattering of the "general idea" in a lot of cases and few actual use cases to work with/figure out. Important points are listed, but are not fully covered in the questions not to mention that the book concentrates very heavilly on topics that are NOT TO BE FOUND ON THE EXAM! Forget about applets, graphics, and swing (ie chapters 15, 16, and 17). It would be nice if they had concentrated more on java.lang.* garbage collection, and dedicated twice the space to threads and what happens with them.

Make this your only source and you will fail the exam, period.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: succint, quality very good
Review: No typos. To the point. If I could only have one book on the shelf, this is it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beyond criticism
Review: Superb book!
Without this book I could not have passed the exam.
Very well-written and clear.

Keep up the good work guys

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Really PERFECT book. Only you need for SCPJ2 exam.
Review: I prepared for the exam with only this book and I am sure it is enough. Because today (17.05.2002) I passed "Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform" exam with 79% score.
This book contains lots of review questions which same as the real questions. And also a hard moch exam. I think if you pass this mock you can pass the real exam.
Many thanks to authors. They deserve this.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Book!
Review: I just wrote my SCJP exam today and I passed on my first try. I only used this book as my study guide. This book isn't just "what you need for the exam". The goal of the book is mastery of the basics of Java. The natural conclusion of this would be to pass the SCJP exam. The book scores a ten on both accounts!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Use this book to pass the Sun Java Certified Programmer Exam
Review: This book covers everything that is necessary to easily pass the exam, plus a lot more that I also consider core Java. The text is clear and concise and covers the language to a depth far exceeding what I had previously thought of the 'simple' Java language. There are very few ambiguities and not a single error that would affect a reader's understanding of Java. Especially well written are the review questions, which are very demanding and accompanied by excellent explanations. If you can understand the material in this book and pass the mock exam at the end then you will pass the real thing with ease.

If your aim is to 'just pass' the test then this is book will be too much for you. However, if you want to pass the test well and know that you are a better programmer because of it then you can't go wrong with this book. I read this book twice, taking notes the second time round, and testing myself with the demanding and well-annotated exercises and then finally with the mock exam. I was very happy with my actual exam result.


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