keri_barb

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Don't feel too bad, Vivian. I think a lot more people fail than you know because they're not brave enough to tell people, especially on a posting board. I have a friend who failed. He's planning on retaking it soon.
I HIGHLY recommend JQPlus (http://enthuware.com/jqplus/). It's very similiar to the real test. If you follow their recommendation to take one test each day until you start passing, you'll be prepared for the real test. In fact, I found the real test easier than their mock exams (I passed on Wednesday with 83%, a higher grade than I expected. )
JQPlus was definitely the best money I spent on preparation.
For other links and stuff on study notes, see my post.
Good luck!
22 years ago
P.S. Thanks for asking. (I love the smilies at JavaRanch!)
22 years ago
I'm in the process of acquiring an agent. If and when that happens, the agent will sell my novel to a publishing house. So the short answer is: I don't know. But I'll keep at it until it happens. Like anything else, it requires optimistic persistence
22 years ago
Thanks for the congrats!
What's next for me? I live in Vermont where the bottom fell out of the tech market and my dot-com company went under at the same time that IBM started a job freeze (I worked at IBM before leaving to do the whole e-commerce thing). I'm hoping to pick up some freelance programming work, possibly telecommute, which I know is quite rare these days. As I am also a writer and finished my first novel this spring, I plan to do some more writing.
We'll see. I love programming and I learned a lot more about Java than I knew before in studying for the exam. It was a very positive experience.
22 years ago
Yeah! I passed the SCJP exam today with 83%, which, even though it's not the highest score in the world, I was very pleased with.

I have to credit JavaRanch's Campfire and Round Up (as well as periodic lurking on the Java certification threads to keep my spirits up), Roseanne Zhang's SCJP Questions & Answers (http://members.spree.com/education/javachina/Cert/FAQ_SCJP.htm), Marcus Green's Java Programmer Certification Exam and Training site (http://www.software.u-net.com/index.htm), and JQ+ (http://enthuware.com/jqplus/). I began my studying with the old edition of Roberts and Heller (because I got it half-price at Barnes and Noble , which provided a good basic starting point.
I studied for about 6 weeks and did approximately 20 mock exams. I found that the mock exams required much more knowledge of constructors than did the actual exam. On the actual exam, there were only 2 Collection, 2 I/O, and 2 AWT questions, which were all fairly basic. There were a lot of questions on flow, and quite a few that dealt with inner classes.
Congratulations to everyone else and good luck to those of you still studying!
22 years ago
The answer is counter-intuitive. The Java API says that substring() throws an IndexOutOfBoundsException if the beginning Index is negative or LARGER THAN THE LENGTH of the String. Since the length of your string is 5 and your index is 5, no exception is thrown.
Does anyone know what purpose this serves?

[This message has been edited by keri_barb (edited July 14, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by keri_barb (edited July 14, 2001).]