Java 2: Exam 310-025 [With CDROM]

by Kathy Sierra and Cindy Glass

Ideal as a stand-alone exam preperation tool, or as a complement to any study guide, the Mike Meyers' Certification Passport series is a focused exam preperation programme. This passport provides... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072193662
• ISBN13: 9780072193664
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good book for quick preparation and review before exam

I pass the exam this morning with 83 %. From total time I spend 70% time reading this book. This book is good if you have limited time to prepare for SCJP. It doesn't have boring description. The authors have done excellent job to extract out core concept from exam point of view. However, there are some typos and cds is not useful. I couldn't able to access what is inside cds. Anyway it was worth Canadian $ 55 investment. I did refer Khalid Mughal book to clear some of the funda and practice examples.

What you need to know to be certified

The subject says it all. This book isn't designed to teach a newbie to code Java, but for those that have Java experience and want to know what subjects are needed to pass the certification. There are other books that go into greater detail, but you will pay 2x more. If you have the $, go for the others, but for the cost, this is a great buy!!

Just the stuff that you need

In addition to liking the easy reading it was nice to stick to JUST the stuff that I need to get through this exam. YES there are books out there with more expanded explainations of all these areas, and YES you need to know that to perform a programming job, but TODAY I just want to get my certification, thank you. This book does just that.The reading was clear and to the point. The tips and stuff were great.The CD is a bit flakey though.

Learn Java at the Programmer level in a friendly way.

I'm a Java instructor and I really like this book. It's succinct by nature with the ultimate goal of passing the Sun 310-025 certification exam. However, there are many surprises in this book for students learning Java without intending certification. For example, chapter 10 on "AWT2: Making the Screen Work," is the best single chapter I've found that progressively takes the reader through the event model and implementing listeners. If you're having trouble understanding anonymous inner class listeners, buy this book for that reason alone.

What a fun book to read!

I wasn't even looking for a Java cert book, I was just needing something to give a me a bit of a jumpstart into Java when a friend of mine recommended this book. What a fun book to read! So much less stuffy than the thousands of or programming books I've read in the past. I really liked it...