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SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Exam 310-055) (Certification Press Study Guides)

Format: Paperback
Author: Katherine Sierra
ReleaseDate: 21 December, 2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Rating:

Great study guide for the scjp exam
I especially liked the 2-minute drill at the end of each chapter, which presents a bulleted list of important points. Like the head-first series, this book explains the concepts in a manner that is easy to understand.

I believe that studying the concepts presented in this book will enable me to pass the exam when I take it later this year.

One Of the Top Two SCJP Books
This Book:
This is a very comprehensive book and the focus on the exam objectives is pretty good. In the last two years, I have explored all the SCJP books, and I find the following two books very useful:

1. There are lots of praises already done for this book. So, I only want to point out from the Introduction inside the book that this is NOT the book for the beginners, it's only for advanced programmers.

2. The SCJP Exam for J2SE 5 by Paul Sanghera (Apress).
This book is new, so not many people know about it. The special thing about this book is that the way material is presented, this book is also good for beginners and intermediate programmers. It also has an excellent focus on the exam objectives. Another special feature of the book that I liked is that it presents complete runnable code examples distributed over all the chapters. You can downlaod the code examples and experiment with them. This can be very useful for the beginners because the SCJP exam is very code intensive. Bottom line: You can prepare for the exam while learning Java programming. If you are advanced programmer, skip the first chapter.
This book does not have a CD but a complete practice exam with well explained answers to the exam questions is given in an Appendix.
Both books re excellent books by their own virtue and get 5 stars from me. .

all you ever need to pass the 310-035 exam
0 exam). the book says it all, this is all you ever need to pass the 310-035 exam (although it's a bit obsolete now, better going for the java 5. i buy this book together with khalid's book from amazon, they are both very good but has difference flavor. this one is easier to read and understand and full of humour, but covers only what you need to pass the exam. khalid's book on the other hand is very dense, it covers more than you need to pass the exam but it's good if you want to grasp the deep knowledge of java, not very easy to read though. if you just want to pass the exam and can choose only one book, this is definitely the best choice.