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I just passed the Sun Certified Java Programmer Exam!

Congrats!!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀 Just wondering, what are you going to use it for? I've been thinking about getting that cert.
 
Congrats!! What was your score? Once I get some time available, I'm going to take it too. Shouldn't be too hard, but the next one (Sun Certified Web Component Developer) will be.
 
The Java 1.1 exam was very easy in 1999. I don't know if the degree of difficulty has changed much since.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
What do you have to know to pass it?
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Put simply. You need to understand how the Java compiler and its underlying components works together in order to pass this test. They present a number of different scenarious and then ask you what will happen. Will it compile, will it throw a runtime exception, what will it output?

 
Originally posted by: JetBlack69
Congrats!!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀 Just wondering, what are you going to use it for? I've been thinking about getting that cert.
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Thanks. I am going to use it for a few purposes:

1) It is a prerequisite for all other Java certs I want to pursue.
2) I am going to use it to differentiate myself from my co-workers and my fellow job seekers.
3) I am going to use it to make it easier for my company to make me billable.
 
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Congrats!! What was your score? Once I get some time available, I'm going to take it too. Shouldn't be too hard, but the next one (Sun Certified Web Component Developer) will be.
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Thanks. I got 51 out of 61 questions right. Not too good, not too bad.

The best source I found was Jave Certified Head Quarters. It has a lot of good links. The best site I found was Dan Chisholm's (LevTeck is a link off of JCHQ and Dan is a link off that). It is frustrating the first couple of times because it shows you how little you know. But if you keep plugging away, it will help you in the long run.
 
Allow me to be the first to say that certs are worthless, that you'll never find a good job, that Java is a dying platform, and that I know someone who's nephew passed that exam after only 3 hour's study so it can't be that much of an accomplishment.













j/k - Congratulations. It always seems that whenever someone posts that they passed a cert, crappers come out from everywhere saying the same worthless negative sh1t over and over.

 
Originally posted by: manly
The Java 1.1 exam was very easy in 1999. I don't know if the degree of difficulty has changed much since.
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In the end, it wasn't as difficult as I thought, but without studying I would have been very unlikely to pass.

It comes down to how you prepare and how good at this stuff you are. The exams I referenced in a previous post were a very valuable tool to prepare.
 
Originally posted by: phantom309
Allow me to be the first to say that certs are worthless, that you'll never find a good job, that Java is a dying platform, and that I know someone who's nephew passed that exam after only 3 hour's study so it can't be that much of an accomplishment.


j/k - Congratulations. It always seems that whenever someone posts that they passed a cert, crappers come out from everywhere saying the same worthless negative sh1t over and over.
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For all intents and purposes, I agree. I am no better than I was this morning at Java.

I think a lot of people could write this certification and pass it today. However, passing a certification is different than doing well. I probably could have passed this thing months ago. But I didn't just want to pass. I wanted to do well. 84% is not well enough for my liking. I could have and should have done better.

I did this for me. Not so I could have some certification to flash off to impress the girls (although my wife is really impressed 😀) or the employers or the clients.

I did it to sort of prove to myself that I could...
 
What other languages do you know? (Sorry for all of the questions but I'm debating about really knowing JAVA or learning some about other languages.)
 
It is my experience that once you know one language, you know them all (more or less).

I started with Turing (pause for laughter), and then tried Javascript and vbScript. Eventually I moved to full blown Visual Basic. Then C++. Then Java. Now C# (which hardly counts since it is just a prettier and lower level Java).

Anyway, it's not what languages you know. It's how you can solve problems with them and knowing what language to choose for what.

It does help to have experience with many different languages so that you can make comparisons and educated choices, but just knowing a lot of syntax doesn't get you very far at all.
 
Originally posted by: JetBlack69
What other languages do you know? (Sorry for all of the questions but I'm debating about really knowing JAVA or learning some about other languages.)
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I have done most of my other work in C/C++ and PowerBuilder.

I like Java a lot because of the web side it offers. I think JSP and servlets are a top way to create web content.

I think my next certification will be Web Developer.
 
Originally posted by: Garet Jax
Originally posted by: manly
The Java 1.1 exam was very easy in 1999. I don't know if the degree of difficulty has changed much since.
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In the end, it wasn't as difficult as I thought, but without studying I would have been very unlikely to pass.

It comes down to how you prepare and how good at this stuff you are. The exams I referenced in a previous post were a very valuable tool to prepare.
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The Simon Phipps certification book was an excellent prep for the Java 1.1 exam, since Phipps was one of the designers of the exam. 😛

I recall saying to a co-worker at the time, "if you read the Phipps book and don't pass the SCJP exam, then you're a dumb ass". But like I said, I haven't seen the up-to-date exam or the current Phipps prep book.

And I agree with you, in many ways, the exam is generally simple and flawed so far as any proof of Java programming competency. It's a bit interesting to get grounded in some of the overlooked language primitives (i.e. data conversions are rigorously covered), but for day to day work, it's pretty useless knowledge.
 
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