SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide (CX-310-065): Exam 310-065 - Katherine Sierra & Bert Bates

My journey through the land of Java

Advantages: Everything is covered
Disadvantages: expensive

language developed by Sun Microsystems. Java was originally called OAK, and was designed for handheld devices and set-top boxes. Oak was unsuccessful so in 1995 Sun changed the name to Java and modified the language to take advantage of the rapidly increasing World Wide Web. *************** The course *************** The course ?Programming in Java? is designed to prepare its candidates to become Sun Certified Programmers (SCP) in the object-oriented Java programming language. It is provided by a private company called Computeach International, and although at £3,500 per person it may not be within everyone?s budget, you do get your money?s worth. The course is approximately 2 years or even longer depending how fast you work, and I have been on it for almost a year so far. The course is made up of four different stages, plus ...

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Review of Sun Certified Programmer (SCP) certification

Mature Student's Study Guide: No More, No Less.

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

and family members and will thus be able to cope). The next six chapters are the really useful sections of the book. They are: ?Producing Successful Assignments?, ?Mastering Research Techniques?, ?Developing Your Analytical Skills?, ?Conquering Oral Presentation?, ?Completing Your Dissertation? and ?Passing Your Exams?. They include solid advice on revision, essay writing, critiquing and reviewing, problem solving and hypothesizing and theorizing. There are also some basic tips on things like the ?Dos and Don?ts of making a presentation? and a lot of detail (not all of it needed) on how to take an exam. At times, the Study Guide seems to explain too much and comes off as patronizing ? you?d think it would credit mature students with some common sense at least ? but I suppose it?s better to over-explain than to under-explain. However, this ...

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Review of The Mature Student's Study Guide - Catherine Dawson

A great all purpose JavaScript guide

Advantages: covers almost everything, well organized
Disadvantages: none that I can think of

There are plenty of JavaScript books out there, but this is definitely one of the best. First of all it's O'Reilly and that means one thing, the best information for professional developers in almost every field of computer science programming. The book is very well structured. In Part 1, Core JavaScript, you get a very detailed presentation of the language, including its advanced features such as closures. In Part 2, Client-Side JavaScript, you are presented both the basic Document Object Model and the W3C standard DOM. You have a very interesting chapter on cookies and other client-side persistence techniques. The book also deals with JavaScript and XML, demonstrates how to use JavaScript serialize/deserialize objects into/from XML documents, how to do basic parsing It also introduces the E4X extension to the core JavaScript language ...

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Review of JavaScript the Definitive Guide - David Flanagan