William CJ

thanks everyone! I'm really happy about this as well!

Just two hours ago! Just want to say thanks to everyone at JavaRanch! Have a great Thanks giving.

some study material I used:
1. SCBCD study kit by Manning (Bought Head first didn't have time to read it)
2. used spec.
3. whizlab

Hey Wise, I saw you back when I was in SCJP forum. Amazing, You are in evey forum!

Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome, I'm sure I will have a good time in this forum as well. Had a great time in SCJP forum, some do mention this forum been less trafficed by people, but I think I can help change that a bit :]

Just passed SCJP, going for SCBCD now. Just saying hello to everyone here! WIll be spending time in this forum for at least 2 months.

Congrads!

congrads!

Moved the post from SCJP forum.

Just got back 30min ago, Passed with 91%! Thanks everyone for your kind words and invaluable advices in this forum. I really appreciate it, lot easier to study with a group than by myself.

Since I cannot talk about the exam itself here. Here's a short summary that I think can help people preping and taking SCJP 1.5:

+ useful material: Dan Chisholm's Test Suite (1.4), whizlab (although they are too hard in some areas), of course, Bates book. Don't neglect 1.4 stuff they useful for exam.

+ useful tactic: I do 5hr paper study then 1 hr coding to review the stuff I learned and get use to syntax. Quite helpful for recognizing bad syntax on exam and API fill-in questions.

+ on exam: Honestly I found the exam to be difficult, so the one thing I found out you better try to do is skip all tough ones in the first pass. I had about 15 leftover at the final hour which to me just bonus. At that point I knew I did enough to pass so wasn't as nervous about solving them actually solved a bunch of those I wasn't able to do first pass.

Here's a breakdown of my score:
Total: 91%

Declaration: 100%
Flow Control: 100%
API: 100%
Concurrency: 75%
OO Concept: 90%
Collection/Generics: 80%
Fundamentals: 90%

Thanks Owen!

Thanks Keith! You read my mind ... Like a megaton brick off my chest ... :]

I'm heading to SCBCD for my next one, wish they can have a EJB 3 version soon however, I might have to work with some legacy stuff so that's where I will start then SCWCD after that.

What about you Keith what are you working on cert-wise?

Oh, if anyone has more question that I could "legally" answer about the test, just drop it here or PM me, I will do my best to answer them.

Just got back 30min ago, Passed with 91%! Thanks everyone for your kind words and invaluable advices in this forum. I really appreciate it, lot easier to study with a group than by myself.

Since I cannot talk about the exam itself here. Here's a short summary that I think can help people preping and taking SCJP 1.5:

+ useful material: Dan Chisholm's Test Suite (1.4), whizlab (although they are too hard in some areas), of course, Bates book. Don't neglect 1.4 stuff they useful for exam.

+ useful tactic: I do 5hr paper study then 1 hr coding to review the stuff I learned and get use to syntax. Quite helpful for recognizing bad syntax on exam and API fill-in questions.

+ on exam: Honestly I found the exam to be difficult, so the one thing I found out you better try to do is skip all tough ones in the first pass. I had about 15 leftover at the final hour which to me just bonus. At that point I knew I did enough to pass so wasn't as nervous about solving them actually solved a bunch of those I wasn't able to do first pass.

Here's a breakdown of my score:
Total: 91%

Declaration: 100%
Flow Control: 100%
API: 100%
Concurrency: 75%
OO Concept: 90%
Collection/Generics: 80%
Fundamentals: 90%

Thanks Keith! Let you guys know how I did in about 5 hours time.

class A {
static void hi(){} // version 1
final static void hi(){} // version 2
}

class B extends A {
static void hi() {} // new version
}

So the new version in B will hide the version in A. That is:
1. If you don't define the "new version" in B, and you call B.hi(); you get version 1.
2. If you define new version in B, you call B.hi(); you get the new version.
3. If instead of version 1 you sub in version 2 in A, then compiler will not allow you to define a "new version" in B. try it.

studied for about 3 months. Finally want to take it and move on. Do about a 75% on Whiz just looking to pass it. Wish me luck.

Since 'this' refers to an instance of the current type, static methods doesn't own any particular instance, it doesn't own a 'this' pointer. 'super' point to the super-class portion of the current instance, if static cannot even own a copy of the current instance how can it own the super-portion of it? Simply if you don't own a pie (this) you definitely don't have access to a portion of it (super).