Alvin Reyes

Congrats! I too is using Charles Lyons book.

Its a great book for study and reference material.

Yep! Nice!

Marlo Magpantay wrote:Congrats! Filipino?

Hi Guys,

I've successfully cleared SCWCD earlier today. I would like to thank:

- My Girlfriend who always supported, encourage, and believes in me. Love you duddy.
- Everyone in this Forum (I'm reading all those tips and tricks)
- My Mentor (Rommel) - He's understanding and analogy techniques where really helpful in my success.
- Teammates

Study Guides:
- SCWCD Study Guide - Charles Lyons
- HFJS
- Code code and code..

Scored 95% (66/69) in the exam.

Hi Guys

I'll be taking my exam either end of September or 1st week of October.. wish me luck..

- Studied HFSJ
- Tons of mock exams so far
- Practice Project

I aim for 100%, I'm quite confident but you'll never know... :p

Hi Guys,

I'm clearly in the mood to raise the bar for myself, I plan to take the SCWCD Certification on September, 2010.

Any tips that you might want to share?

I'm currently reading HF JSP/Servlets and manage to read the book twice (2nd Rotation/ Chapter 8). I also plan to do some Application Development Project on our home business to sharpen up my skills and be prepared!

alright, voucher sold. I plan to take SCWCD late this year or early next year, I have to study mo as I'm aiming to get high marks on the exam. Any suggestions on what book should I use?

Your suggestions would mean a lot.

thanks!

Hi

Just want you opinion what I'm going through right now with regards to the certification. I've manage to pass SCJP 5 last week (86%) and I have an existing voucher that will expire come april 2010. I'm plan to take SCWCD but its to early for me to take it, I would estimate that I must study for it a least a month and do a freelance project before attempting the exam.

With this, I thought of getting the SCJP 6 exam and try my luck come early or late march. Would it matter if I have 2 SCJP certification with different versions? I know for a fact that employers could just conclude that I am certified but for me its more of an award and a solid proof that I can pass the SCJP exam regardless of its version.

how about you? how would you handle such?

Many thanks to those who supported me throughout my experience

Tips:
Read K&B SCJP 5 / 6
Write a lot of code
Take mock exams

I have the same problem too, what i would usually do is when i don't have anything to work on.. i just open eclipse and start practicing. I also take sometime to review my previously codes for practice.

I'm currently doing a java-based project as part of my preparation.. i was planning to take the exam on February. oh yeah, K&B is a very good book, it has given me enough information to really understand Java.

Can anyone tell me (or post a link) any tutorials on how can i connect through a remote database(Note that i used java persistence api and this is a desktop application)? I've tried overriding the values on my persistence xml file but i always got a timeout error.

:roll:

thanks

I was using the K&B book for my preparation, i skipped the regex chapter (because i think i need a better source if i want to have an in-depth understanding of the chapter) and finish it. I'm taking mock exams and almost got a 70% to 80% on them and i also took the free proficiency exam on SUN website and got a 26/42 (about 60% or 70%).

I also currently doing 2 Java Projects (cause i want to know how far would my knowledge in java).

I do think that I'm ready to take the exam (by the way, I'm going to take 1.6). I was planning to take it late January 2009.

Any advice? Do i need to be a guru to pass the exam?

Hi! I also have an inquiry regarding this topic. I have the following code:


class Practice { Practice() { int x = 1; int y = 1; y = x++; if(x > y) {System.out.println("TOINKZ1");} if(x < y) {System.out.println("TOINKZ2");} } public static void main(String[] args) { new Practice(); } }

I was thinking that it had to increment the x first before equating it to the y because of the higher precedence rules, yet it did not, it equate first the x to y then increment the x...

Output:
TOINKZ1

Can anyone explain?

Wild guess: When you are comparing 2 variables, your actually passing the bits of the current variable your comparing. s2 has the bit representation value of the s1 with a value of "arit" and s3 has the bit representation value of the string "arit" only..

When you are directly using a value (example: String j = "po"), i would recommend to use == for comparison and if you are actually comparing the string object (ex: String j = new String("po")), it would be advisable to use .equals() method (which is overriden from the object class).

because enums fixed constants are implicitly static and final, and you don't need an instance of the class to access static variables.. you just need the class itself..