Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Study Guide, w. CD-ROM (Certification Press Study Guides): Amazon.de: Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates: Englische Bücher

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The authors have written this book for those preparing to take the Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer Exam (310-025). It's structured around the exam topics with each chapter providing objectives, exercises and--among other details--self-test exercises. They discuss the exam question types, their level of difficulty and also provide tips on studying for and taking the exams.

Each chapter concentrates on a particular aspect of Java as it relates to the exam. As you'd expect, there's discussion of Java language, implementation issues, usage, best practice and alternative approaches, but the structure is somewhat eclectic and unfocussed. Sections end with a set of multi-choice self-test questions with the answers and explanations at the back of the book.

As with most books designed to help you pass certification exams, the Sun Certification Programmer for Java 2 Study Guide really isn't all that useful for much else. It assumes you're already a Java programmer, and isn't a reference or a how-to book. It prepares you for an exam. The self-test questions are the most interesting part of the book. This is because the Sun exam tends to test your knowledge of less well-known operators, unusual constructions and gotchas. While this book won't help you tackle real-life Java programming projects, it may well help you get paid to work on such a project. --Steve Patient -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Anyone preparing for Sun's certification exam 310-025 will find Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Study Guide of use. It provides a fast-paced tour of essential Java features and do-it-yourself sample test questions that will improve your chances for success on the exam.

This fact-based approach highlights material that will be on the test. This means that it pays special attention to certain topics (for example, public-, protected-, and private-access rules), even though you may not normally need to think at this level of detail. Besides the basics, the text explains the details of class design and string processing particularly well. Exception handling and garbage collection in Java is also discussed, as well as class design as it pertains to the certification test. The book includes plenty of tricks and tips for what's covered on the test, along with what to watch out for in certain areas.

A longer chapter on AWT for building basic user interfaces in Java rounds out this text. Every section provides challenging sample questions (usually about 20 for each chapter), which let you test your knowledge. An appendix contains more than 100 pages of answers and explanations for these self-test questions. (The companion CD-ROM features a computer-based test, similar in format to the actual certification exam.) If you have some Java experience, this book will quickly help ready you for official Java certification. Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Study Guide definitely delivers the goods. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

Test-preparation guide to the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 exam 310-025
The format of the certification test
Java language basics
Data types, arrays, and strings
Declarations and access control
Operators
Equality testing
Flow control
Exception handling (try, catch, and finally blocks)
Checked and unchecked exceptions
Java garbage collection

Mark-sweep algorithms
Encapsulation and class design in Java
Overloading and overriding methods
Inner classes
Threads and synchronization techniques
Math, String, and StringBuffer classes
Java collections
The AWT user interface classes
Event handling (events, sources, and listeners)
Sample test questions and answers
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mehr braucht man nicht... 19. M�rz 2004

Von A. Hart

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Dieses Buch ist als Vorbereitung für die Prüfung bestens geeignet. Es beschreibt die Tiefen der Programmiersprache, aber auch v.a. die Tücken der Zertifizierung bis ins kleinste Detail. Meiner Meinung nach ist die tatsächliche Java 2 Programmer Prüfung leichter als die Übungsbeispiele, aber dadurch wird das Buch ja nicht schlechter. Vereinzelt gibt es kleinere Ungenauigkeiten am Rande, die aber aufgrund der Komplexität des Themas verzeihbar sind. Richtige Fehler habe ich keine gefunden, und die zentralen Punkte werden wirklich übersichtlich, gründlich und umfassend erläutert. Auch Fragen zu Sonderfällen oder evtl. Schwierigkeiten, die mir beim Lesen zu einem Thema durch den Kopf gingen, wurden fast immer spätestens 2 Seiten weiter behandelt!

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Das richtige Buch, um die Prüfung zu bestehen 5. M�rz 2006

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Ich habe mich für die Java-Programmer-Prüfung v.a. mit diesem Buch (und mit Mock Exams) vorbereitet und mit 93% bestanden. Das Buch deckt wirklich alle wichtigen Prüfungsthemen ab und bereitet genau auf das vor, was man dafür wissen muss, nicht mehr und nicht weniger.
Allerdings heisst das auch, dass es keinesfalls als Einstiegsbuch für Java geeignet ist. Sein Grundlagenwissen muss man sich anderswo aneignen.
Einziger Wermutstropfen: Bei Themen wie "Inner Classes" wären ein paar Hintergrundinformationen mehr zu praktischen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten hilfreich. Man behält Informationen besser, wenn man deren Anwendung in der Praxis sieht.

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Complete coverage and good practice questions 22. Dezember 2002

Von "jenlevinson"

Format:Gebundene Ausgabe

This book is more than simple test preparation and provides the reader with a solid grounding in Java. If you just know a little object oriented programming I would recommend that you buy this to introduce yourself to Java. The topics in each chapter are coherent and to the point. Another excellent part of this book is the example code demonstrating almost every point, so rather than guess what the author is trying to explain you can actually see it. This really helped me with the concepts more than simple theory could. Everything is clearly explaned and you will learn exactly what you need to program in Java. The book also makes a good effort to make you appreciate some of the more common pitfalls in Java programming. It's almost like icing on the cake that after you will be able to pass the Java exam!

One complaint that I heard mentioned here is the nature of the questions. Once in a while I was a little frustrated with the difficulty of some (but not most) of the questions. And sometimes the questions seemed to ask the same topic is 2 or 3 different ways. But after going through the repetitive questions I realized it was just reinforcing necessary information such as the difference between passing variables by reference or by value. Some of these topics were repeated on the exam too, so when all was said and done I passed with room to spare. Another valuable part of the questions is that every multiple choice answer is explained, not just the incorrect ones. This really helped me pinpoint why I had some of the questions wrong.

I haven't been able to find the errors some people have reported here. I went to the company site to check for errors and there were a few mentioned but not nearly enough to warrent criticism on that level. My guess is some of these reviewers are a little green and aren't finding real errors (or if they think they are they should report them). An excellent book on all fronts.