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

Advantages: Lots of information, extremely clear and helpful
Disadvantages: Over-explains and doesn't motivate or inspire

...The Mature Student’s Study Guide is straightforward and does exactly what it says on the tin: it’s designed to help people returning to education – whether it’s after a gap of 5 years or 50. The advice is fairy basic, but covers everything: the idea is to use the Study Guide as a starting point before referring to other books to tackle any problem areas. It is designed for both attending a college or university and distance learning, although the content applies more to degree courses. The first chapters are only mildly helpful. They are: “Learning How To Learn”, “Preparing for Study”, “Organizing Your Study”, “Enhancing Your Reading Skills”, “Enhancing Your Writing Skills” and “Enhancing Your Mathematical and Scientific Skills”. I suspect that they would be more useful to someone returning to education after a longer time or to... Read review

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Advantages: Interesting, bullet points, good diagrams
Disadvantages: Not in colour, some parts not detailed enough

...Revision can be really dull sometimes. There's nothing worse than having a huge pile of notes or a thick textbook and not knowing where to start with revision. Having two A-level exams and some AS level re-sits in January, I need something that will keep me on task as well as enable me to learn all the material required. That's where these books come in. I have four of them: 2 AS and 2 A2 (Biology and Chemistry.) The AS books each have three modules notes and each A2 have 2 modules notes. I found these books in the library at school but they only had the chemistry ones. I decided I would buy the biology ones so I have my own copies and while I was purchasing them I thought I might as well get the chemistry ones too. *Advantages* The books are really good. They are specification specific, which means that all the material in... Read review

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Advantages: easily laid out
Disadvantages: not as in depth as some texts

...I purchased this book oline for £22.79 including delivery from amazon. I believe it retails for slightly more in high street shops. The book itself is large with around 700 pages but at the same time is very compact. It is broken down into 3 helpful sections looking at the performer in action which includes the anatomy sections, the performer as a person which includes sport pschology and the social issues of sport which covers physical education. I purchased it for the purposes of an HND in sports science to get a grounding in the subject areas. It is good for the basics but at Higher education levels of study more indepth texts would be required for referencing purposes. It is more suited to AS and A level study and has good little investigations and exam styke questions to test your learning as you go along.It gives refences... Read review

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