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Title: A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification: A Comprehesive Primer, Second Edition by Khalid Mughal, Rolf Rasmussen ISBN: 0-201-72828-1 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 08 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book to prepare for SCPJ2 1.4 exam
Comment: All in all, this is a good book to help prepare you for the SCPJ2 1.4 exam. For the most part explanations are concise and adequately explain the topic. I also like the tie-in with Whizlabs testing software. Since I gave this 4 stars, I won't go into everything I liked (since I obviously like this book), rather, I will give some detail as to why it didn't garner 5 stars:
- The book is aimed at experienced programmers with or without Java knowledge. Well, for the most part that is true, but I believe that many novice Java programmers will need an additional source to learn Java. The explanations were sometimes lacking from the point of view of a new Java learner. So if you're totally new to Java, you may need an additional source to supplement this book.
- Flow. This book frequently refers you to other sections of the book. Get used to being in the middle of an explanation (that spans only 2 pages) and it may provide 3 different references to other chapters/sections in the book. For instance, in section 4.2 "Defining Classes", in the 1 page of text devoted to explaining this topic, there are 9 references to other sections in the book to help the reader better understand the topic. Now, some of these are necessary as sometimes covering one topic requires you to mention something you haven't discussed, so references are nice if the reader wants to jump ahead to understand some minor point before returning to the topic at hand. However, I would like to see a more detailed discussion for each topic rather than skipping around through the book.
- Exam Objectives at beginning of each chapter are somewhat annoying. The intent is good, but the implementation is lacking. When I read an "intro" or a bulleted list at the beginning of a chapter, I expect that is what the chapter is about. Not so in this book. Some chapters will mention many topics in the "Exam Objectives" prefacing the chapter, yet some or many of those objectives are not discussed in that chapter, but rather, you are given references to where they are discussed. Why couldn't they just say "here is what is important in this chapter" and leave it at that?
As I said at the beginning, this is a good book and worthy of four stars, so don't let my negative comments fool you. I liked the book, I just would have liked it better had the latter two items I mentioned been better addressed.
Rating: 5
Summary: What a book !
Comment: Mughal and Rasmussen's programmer's guide to Java Certification is a tremendous effort in putting accross a real conceptual picture of Java and OO Concepts. I used the first edition to take my SCJP exam, and cleared like a cakewalk. I used the second edition to know about newer things like Assertions in Java 2, and it impressed me once again.
The practice questions given at the end of each lesson are really comprehensive w.r.t to the lesson under reading. On top of that a full mock exam at the end of the book adds more value to this precious work done by authors.
I would strongly recommend using *only* this book for SCJP 1.4.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great details, Good questions
Comment: I read many chapters of this book and found the subjet matter to be covered in great details. Good list of questions with
detailed answers. I recommend it.
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Title: Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide (Exam 310-035 & 310-027) by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates ISBN: 0072226846 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 11 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: SCWCD Exam Study Kit: Java Web Component Developer Certification by Hanumant Deshmukh, Jignesh Malavia, Jacquelyn Carter ISBN: 1930110596 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Head First EJB by Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra ISBN: 0596005717 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 29 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide (3rd Edition) by Philip Heller, Simon Roberts ISBN: 0782140777 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: The Sun Certified Java Developer Exam with J2SE 1.4 by Terry Camerlengo, Mehran Habibi, Jeremy Patterson ISBN: 1590590309 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 09 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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