Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide (Exam 310-035 & 310-027)

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Revised and updated by one of the co-developers of the (310-035) Programmer exam, this edition offers complete coverage of the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 exam objectives and newly added, complete coverage of both portions of the Sun Certified Java 2 Developer's exam. More than 250 challenging practice questions have been completely revised to closely model the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam. An integrated study system based on proven pedagogy, exam coverage includes step-by-step exercises, special Exam Watch notes, On-the-Job elements, and Self Tests with in-depth answer explanations to help reinforce and teach practical skills.

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“Finally! A Java certification book that explains everything clearly. All you need to pass the exam is in this book.”

—Solveig Haugland, Technical Trainer and Former Sun Course Developer

"Who better to write a Java study guide than Kathy Sierra, the reigning queen of Java instruction? Kathy Sierra has done it again—here is a study guide that almost guarantees you a certification!"

—James Cubeta, Systems Engineer, SGI

"The thing I appreciate most about Kathy is her quest to make us all remember that we are teaching people and not just lecturing about Java. Her passion and desire for the highest quality education that meets the needs of the individual student is positively unparalleled at SunEd. Undoubtedly there are hundreds of students who have benefited from taking Kathy's classes."

—Victor Peters, founder Next Step Education & Software Sun Certified Java Instructor

“I want to thank Kathy for the EXCELLENT Study Guide. The book is well written, every concept is clearly explained using a real life example, and the book states what you specifically need to know for the exam. The way it's written, you feel that you're in a classroom and someone is actually teaching you the difficult concepts, but not in a dry, formal manner. The questions at the end of the chapters are also REALLY good, and I am sure they will help candidates pass the test. Watch out for this Wickedly Smart book.”

-Alfred Raouf, Web Solution Developer, Kemety.Net

"The Sun Certification exam was certainly no walk in the park but Kathy's material allowed me to not only pass the exam, but Ace it!"

—Mary Whetsel, Sr. Technology Specialist, Application Strategy and Integration, The St. Paul Companies

Customer Reviews:

Awesome study guide.......2007-10-10

Very comprehensive and easy to follow exam preparation guide. It's only focused on the exam so it doesn't waste your time on useless topics. I haven't taken the exam yet (will in 3 weeks though) buy I'm confident that i'll do good thanks to this guide.

Fantastic book.......2007-10-06

You'll have a better understanding of the compiler/environment and you'll pass the test. This book and questions busts your butt harder then the real test, so you'll be more then adequately prepared. This is a book you want to keep around you long after you take your test.

Excellent book.......2007-09-17

I have passed my SCJP exam! The book was really helpful to either extend my java knowledge and helped me to passed the exam. I have spent about two months to prepare the exam and read this book about 3 times. Make sure you understand all the questions from inside out at the end of each chapter. I only used this book as my studying material (you would think that's risky, isn't it?) But it did work, although I did grabbed a few mock up exam from internet. But I didn't have much time to do those mock-ups, otherwise i may can do better in the exam. I got 88%.

Excellent! Rare book!.......2007-09-11

The book is written with such clarity, precision and humor that are rarely seen in the IT education. The authors have done fantastic job at presenting complex material in an easy yet concise fashion.

Great SCJP book!.......2007-09-06

This book has a very light language and go deep in Java language. I recommend it if you really want to be a Java 5 certified!

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The Wage-Price Issue a Theoretical Analysis
William G. Bowen
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GM9AXU

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The Wage-Price Issue: A Theoretical Analysis
William G. Bowen
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Reprint
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Binding: Hardcover

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THE WAGE-PRICE ISSUE: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS.
William G. Bowen
Manufacturer: Princeton, Princeton U. P., 1960. 447 pp. First edition in dust jacket, in very good condition.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDWV72

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Applied Microeconomic Theory presents a seminal collection of the author's influential papers in a number of areas of applied microeconomic theory. This invaluable volume contains a selection of both published and unpublished papers written over a period of thirty years and reveals Curtis Eaton's profound economic insight and ability.

Topics covered include:

• strategic market structure. Beginning with Eaton's pioneering 1975 paper on preemption by product proliferation in a differentiated oligopoly and ending with his paper - in collaboration with Nicholas Schmitt - on the implications for market structure of flexible manufacturing published in 1995

• efficiency wages, including two of the very earliest papers on the subject written in collaboration with William White

• theory of price in both labor and output markets

• collusive behavior, including a number of important papers written in collaboration with Mukesh Eswaran.

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Mary Elizabeth, a.k.a. Lola, is accustomed to playing the starring role in the fascinating production that is her life. Her pottery-making single mom and bratty twin sisters are merely bit players in Lola's dramatic existence. But all this changes when she is forced to move from her beloved Manhattan to the boring suburbs of New Jersey. According to Lola, "living in the suburbs is like being dead, only with cable TV and pizza delivery." The worst part is that someone has already snagged the coveted Drama Queen of Suburbia title--and that someone is Carla Santini. Carla, who is "sophisticated, beautiful, and radiates confidence the way a towering inferno radiates heat," isn't about to let anyone take away her hard-earned crown. Undaunted, Lola tries out for and wins the lead in the school play, a role much desired by Carla. In retaliation, Carla makes the entire student body give Lola the silent treatment (and in addition scores tickets to a sold-out concert of Lola's favorite rock band). Can Lola crash the concert, crush Carla, and still have enough energy to wow everyone in the school production of Pygmalion? It's all in a day's work for Lola, Teenage Drama Queen.

With Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Dyan Sheldon has written a classic good girl vs. bad girl story and a rib-tickling romp through the petty kingdom (or in this case, queen-dom) of small-town high school popularity politics. The wide-open ending will have young drama-queens-in-training eagerly searching the shelves for the next installment of Lola's adventures. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

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"High school has always been this stressful, but rarely this hilarious." —BOOKLIST (starred review)

More famous than ever after hitting the silver screen, the ever-dramatic Lola Cep is still in the spotlight — vying with Born-to-Win, Born-to-Run-Everything Carla Santini to snag the lead in the high school play. Can Lola survive Carla's attempts at retaliation? Once the curtain goes up, which drama queen will take center stage?

Customer Reviews:

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.......2007-01-07

When I picked up Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen I the plot quickly grabbed my attention. This was I great book and I highly reccomend it. If you don't like "girly-girl" books, this may not be the one for you. I reccomend it for 4th-7th graders. I read it in fith grade. I hope you found my review helpful.

Sophie S.

The April Book.......2007-01-03

Mary Cep, well i mean Lola (is what she likes to be called). Lola is in her own little world. She lived in New York in manhattan and she finds out that she has to move to New Jersey Dellwood a.k.a. "Deadwood". Lola's dream is to become a Actress and she feels moving to "deadwood" is going to cramp her Style.

She goes to a new school and finds out that she's not the only drama queen, there are plenty more. She meets her only frined Ella who is totally the same but somewhat opposite from Lola. And they clicked, But she finds out there is a play that she want to play in but their is trouble coming her way when she finds out that Ms. Carla Santini is going to for the same part Carla also known as a drama queen, the diffences between them is that Carla is rich and Lola is not the rich. That causes drama between two big drama queens. Through out the book They are getting at each other.

real but not her life .......2007-01-02

Mary Elizabeth cep or like she prefers to be call Lola because she think "Mary Elizabeth" sond like an English maid. She thinks Lola is romantic and mysterious. The story start when Mary's mom dissaded to move to New Jersey. Mary, her mom and her two sister twins pam and paula move to Dellwood or "Deadwood" New Jersey. There Mary think she was going to be the center of attention in the town and school. Mary dissaded to start her own makebelieve life but it dint work her way because the most popurlar girl in school was not going to let Mary her spothlight. Carla Santini made her life hard for Mary or Lola (that how every one call her in the high school). Mary try out for the school play PYGMALION and she got the lead part because she knew Carla wanted that part for then on Carla try to make Mary life a living hell but Mary make it and she got the spotlight she wanted seen the beginning

I relly like this book like this book because this book is realistic. I could relate to this book like Mary i move too to passaic New Jersey n like Mary I lie on some think but I dint lie about big think i didnt kill my father like she didnt so her friend could fell sorry for her and her family. This book is verry interisting n it makes you ask your self what is going 2 happens next. I recomment this book to every one. Dyan Sheldon is a very good writer.

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fun and flashy.......2006-08-14

Mary Elizabeth Cep has known practically since birth that her name is far too ordinary for a girl of her nature. This is why she has renamed herself Lola Elspeth Cep (or Sep, she hasn't decided yet). However, her friends and family in The City, who have known her her whole life, fail to comply.

So, when her mother announces that they are moving to Dellwood (aka Deadwood), New Jersey, Lola (after finally resigning herself to the news) sees it as a chance to reinvent herself, and the likes of Carla Santini, the most popular girl in school, can't stop her. Along the path of her reinvention she befriends Ella, her polar opposite on the wildness scale, and shows her that a little adventure now and then is perfectly acceptable. A classic new-girl tale is pumped up with drama and makes for an entertaining read.

The Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.......2005-11-03

'WOW' This is a really good book. Mary Elizabeth Cep none as Lola, is a huge drama queen whitch is what her mom refers to her. She's also a normal teenager who wants to go to the last consert of Sidartha. Her parents gave Lola offers but none of them are good enough for her or Lola's friend Ema. They also have to proof something to the meanest,richest girl in New York Carla Santini. Lola also has to get the leading role in the drama club. The night of the Sidhartha consert comes and Lola has a plan. At first it dosen't work out but towards the end it all works out good.

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Teacher and performer Doug Goodkin presents an overview of the dynamic approach to music education known as Orff Schulwerk. In this comprehensive look at the many facets of this timeless practice, the author hopes to re-imagine its import in the lives of children, schools and culture at large in contemporary times. Carl Orff's educational ideas could not have an advocate more well equipped by fortune and disposition. Inspired initially by Avon Gillespie, who embodied playing, singing and dancing, Doug Goodkin also brings to his teaching a first-hand, intensive experience of the indigenous music and dance of many continents and peoples. -Margaret Murray

Customer Reviews:

Inspiring Music Teacher and Writer.......2007-05-13

Doug Goodkin has written an inspiring Orff Schulwerk methodolgy book based on 27 years of personal experience sprinkled with solid historical and philosophical facts in an inspiring and reader-friendly style.

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In songs, dance, and drama, the fame of the Yoruba of Nigeria is firmly established and universally acknowledged. Also with an established writing and literary tradition, the Yoruba have asserted themselves as a dominant force in the world of creativity, touching on various genres and producing men and women of fame. Such stars are represented here, as in the works of Wole Soyinka and Zulu Sofola. The power of language forms a crucial element of their creativity, with various authors examining the nature of Yoruba language and education, and the multiple uses to which language has been put to compose plays and songs. Chanters of words and famous recorders of music such as Haruna Isola and Fela Anikulapo Kuti are presented in this volume, not as competitors but as companions in the ever-expanding horizons of Yoruba eclectic manifestations of creativity. The future of the language, in the making of new idioms and dictionaries, is examined in an attempt to position the Yoruba and their cultures in the ever-changing world of cultural inventions.

Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, Life, and Songs

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Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, Life, and Songs

Manufacturer: Africa World Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1592213359

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Television addicts of America unite!

At last! Here's the book you've been waiting for to fill those idle moments while you're waiting for Star Trek ("Beam me up, Scotty"), Monty Python's Flying Circus ("And now for something completely different"), or The Mary Tyler Moore Show ("Hi, guys!") to come on the air.

Cult TV includes the unknown tales of the shows' origins, the truth about how the stars got their roles (and where they are now), important episodes, fan club information, and more trivia than even the most crazed connoisseur of repeat viewing could ever need!

Here, in one volume, is more than you've ever dreamed of knowing about Hymie the Robot, the Batmobile, Barney Fife, the 12th Precinct, the Jupiter II, and the rest of the weird and wonderful features immortalized in over seventy-five cult television programs!

Are M*A*S*H and I Love Lucy over for the day? Don't despair . . . Cult TV will whisk you right back to rerun heaven! Yes, now you can visit forever with Rob and Laura, Batman and Robin, Gomez and Morticia, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Al and Peg!

Over Seventy-Five Cult Favorites! Including:

The Andy Griffith Show
The Honeymooners
I Love Lucy
Leave It to Beaver
M*A*S*H
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Twilight Zone
Batman
The X-Files
The Prisoner
Dr. Who
The Simpsons
Married . . . with Children
Rocky and Bullwinkle
The Monkees
Fawlty Towers
The Odd Couple
Taxi
Twin Peaks
I Dream of Jeannie
Barney Miller
The Flintstones
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mission: Impossible
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Saturday Night Live
Dark Shadows
All in the Family
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Avengers

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Cult TV : A Viewer's Guide to the Shows America Can't Live Without!
John Javna
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JEMWIK

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Get any UML Tutorial from the web instead of this book.......2006-04-20

Oh! Come on. I just got the book today. What is this? Chapter 5, very important part of UML titled "Use cases", has only 3 pages with a single image of "System boundary diagram"!!! Is this that really matters in the Use cases? For haven sake! I run out of words to explain the quality of this book. Book is total disaster. Chapter 6, OOD, 20 pages, 6 subchapters, Single Responsibility Principle, etc. Who cares about RSP, OCP, LSP, DIP, ISP. Why whould this be more important than Activity diagrams explained in details with numerous examples.

What is this book about anyway. Skipping detailed explanation of use cases or of activity diagram or numerous important items in the UML world while providing me chapter about OOD, Iterative Development (3 pages), Planning.

Then again State and FSM diagrams only 7 or 10 pages. Why is this called an UML book?

Average free tutorial on UML is much better than this. Just go to google, IBM developer works, Borland community, wherever and get a decent UML introduction.

Is this some kind of a joke? I wonder who could rate this book so high, 4 stars in average! And what does give this book a "Java" in title? Perhaps several interfaces written in java? Wow! How about making an C++ edition, with cca 240 pages as well.

Oh come on, close this page about this book, go home, go to some other UML book. If only I had a chance to find and see a free preview of this book I would have never bought it.

Look for the free sample of excerpt of the book first somewhere on the web, ed2k, wherever, before buying it. - I would never have bought it.

A breath of fresh air.......2006-01-09

Years ago I was working on a very complex project. One of the team members convinced the management that we needed CASE tools. After spending $$$ on them and countless hours learning them, we began to use them. I soon became convinced that they provided little to help the process and in the end, they nearly sunk the project. It was yet another pseudo code that did little to aid in the process of generating real code. So when UML came on the scene, knowing it's roots I was very suspicious. After looking more into it, I was pleasantly surprised by UML. I believe that most of my objections to CASE were addressed, but not all. I found that too many had simply replaced one dead weight with another. Again countless hours were spent generating documents that no one ever read or cared about. Yet UML was a valuable tool, why was this so? I shared this with my grown son who directed me to Martin's book, and it became clear that a valuable tool was simply being misused. It is obvious that Martin has been in the real world and knows when to use a tool like UML, how much to use it, and what it is best suited for. Rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water as I was tempted to do, Martin points out that UML is a good communication tool best used at a white board with a small team. Once everyone is on the same page, the team can proceed as a team. Martin doesn't over burden you with a lot of useless diagrams. He poses a problem, shows how UML addresses a design issue, and shows you the resultant design change. I subscribe to many of the XP techniques because I have used them and found them useful with the exception of pair programming which I did for a while and found it to reduce the productivity to the lowest common denominator between the pair. I highly recommend this book.

Uncle Bob Could Have Done Better.......2005-07-02

A book with this title is much needed. Sadly, Uncle Bob's advice to write your UML on a napkin and later throw it away is not what we need. He is so flippant about UML that he comes across as arrogant and having much less credibility than he probably deserves. My advice to Uncle Bob: adopt a more humble attitude that will better serve your readers and write your second edition with a focus on accomplishing what the attractive title promises.

Good book, sprinkle with salt.......2005-05-18

I just led a study group of 15 people reading this book. The book is very down-to-earth with a lot of practical advice for how a group of programmers can effectively use UML to aid in communication of ideas across a team.

It only covers 5 of the 11 or so UML diagram types, but it covers the ones that will really be used by java programmers day-to-day, in design documents, whiteboards, etc. For each it talks about real world, practical approaches on how to use them to communicate ideas.

Bob Martin is an 'Agile' guy, and it really comes across in this book. A lot of his arguments come down to "A lot of the pomp and circumstance surrounding UML is pretty useless, except when it isn't", and while he tries to instill when that will be, that kind of knowledge reaslly only comes with experience. He also advocates that the diagrams should be 'lightweight enough to be thrown away', which is an opinion that can rub a lot of people the wrong way, is a very valid position. While there is nothing inherently 'good' or 'evil' about UML, it is often used to help create a 'documentation glut'. I have seen situations where the documentation falls out of sync with the code, or worse... the code can't change because the documentation cannot be updated (because of some beurocratic red tape). The author seems to have had some bad experiences along these lines, and seems to have a lot of reactionary thoughts.

This is good! while a couple of other reviews here have called such advice 'impractical' (which it can be in a lot of environments), the information in the book is very valuable and the thought provoking nature about 'be as lightweight as you can' and 'avoid the UML police' are useful as long as you can take them with a grain of salt and apply the advice judiciously in your own work environment.

I definitely recommend this book to Java Developers who need to better communicate their ideas to groups of other developers. After reading this, there are other references should you need to 'go down the UML Rabbit Hole' a little deeper. this book is better first though, because it puts the relevant diagrams into practical context.

Recommended, but some code comments would have really helped.......2004-09-29

There are many books that can be used to learn the Unified Modeling Language (UML). However, in most cases, they are not much more than a description of the language. Like the languages that humans use to communicate with each other, you can only learn UML if you use it in contexts that are familiar to you.
Martin starts with the initial assumption that the reader is fluent in Java and uses that as the basis for teaching the fundamentals of UML. If you are in this category, then I can strongly recommend the book. Unfortunately, this means that if you don't know Java, it will not be that much help to you. Early in the book, Martin eschews a lot of Java code, choosing to concentrate on the diagrams. Skeleton code is used, and it is as bare as it could possibly be. In the later sections, large blocks of Java code are used, particularly in the last chapter, which is the case study of a remote service project.
While I considered the combination of Java code and diagrams to be well done in the early chapters, there is a fundamental weakness in the last chapters. Martin made the decision to avoid putting comments in the code. Therefore, there are segments of code multiple pages in length where there is not a single comment explaining what it does. While I concede that it is possible to determine what the code is doing, that understanding does not come easy. In several cases it took me a significant amount of time before I was able to understand the whats, whys and hows of exactly how the parameters of the project were being implemented.
The first part of this book can be used to learn UML in a context that will be familiar to experienced Java programmers. However, while the later chapters can be understood, getting there requires a lot of effort, in my opinion, too much for a book where the goal is to teach UML rather than Java.

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UML for Java Programmers
JON REED, IRA MARTIN, ROBERT MALLATT
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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Binding: Paperback

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