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

click here for more details, find new or used items	Katherine Sierra, Bert Bates Our price £16.49 (£32.99) New from £16.48 Used from £12.26 Pages: 825 (Paperback) ISBN: 0072253606 Pub: McGraw-Hill Osborne Pub date: 2006-01-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3140

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Passed easily with this book (0/0 people found this helpful)

Achieved score of over 90% in my SCJP exam using this book alone. Didn't even use the CD - found the book's content and practice questions sufficient. The book is extremely thorough and well written, even mildly amusing in places which helps when some of the topics are such heavy going. Highly recommend to anyone preparing for the SCJP exam - it's all you'll need!

It got me through!!! (0/0 people found this helpful)

I seriously recommend this book. It depends on your experience how hard you will have to study it but I passed my exam today and that is really the point isn't it. I found the book easy going and the practise questions and practise exams on the CD were really helpful. I do think that you have to understand that reading won't be enough, you actually have to write programs and the more you write the better you will do.

could do better (2/3 people found this helpful)

As probably already mentioned in lots of other reviews, yes, this is written by the people who write the exam, yes it does contain all the topics in the exam and yes it does contain a whole raft of jokes that aren't funny, spoil the flow of the book and should be removed.

What people seem to ignore is that the book in parts is very good but in other parts it is dreadful. It is supposed to be teaching everything about the exam but it is ambiguous, there are large chunks of vital information that is missed, and some chapters only describe the finer points of chapter's topic in the answer to the end of chapter lesson after you get it wrong because it wasn't described anywhere else!

If I could go back, I'd buy a different book that was purely for the SCJP.

One other thing to bare in mind, this book won't teach you java; it will teach you some core java concepts, but mostly it will teach you about all the things you don't need to know, will never use and let you know how to try and spot errors that you shouldn't have to spot. But, that is what the SCJP exam is about, not knowing about Java, rather knowing about stuff that's irrelevant! So in that respect, the book is a necessity as only the authors of the exam know how daft the questions they've created are - which begs the question - is the exam as it is so that they could get this book published, or is the book a response to the exam?

Complete and fun to read (1/1 people found this helpful)

This book addressed all the topics that I got questioned on on the exam ... moreover, it was also fun to read, and that is an achievement for a certification study guide. By working through the self-test and taking the supplied mock exam, I scored 92% on the exam.
If I ever have to look for another certification guide, I'll take one from the same series !

Great book (1/1 people found this helpful)

This is a great book. Good explanations and examples mixed with good humor. However it is annying that the PDF-version of the book is a slightly older version than the printet book (was if anything expecting the opposite!). I have found several typos, mostly in code examples, in the PDF-version that was actually corrected in the printed version.

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