I am listing the only resources which I personally used and found good
. - Maha Anna |
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Resource Name |
Mahas's Comments |
URL |
RECOURCES I USED |
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Java2 SDK download page |
First thing I did. Downloaded the SDK and installed. |
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2 / |
2 |
Online Java2 API Doc |
This is a must to have the API Doc in our harddisk for quick and easy reference. |
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2 /docs/index.html |
3 |
Java Byte Code Generator |
Not necessary for SCJP2 exam purpose. Just to peek the source code from .class files itself. |
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall ey/Bridge/8617/jad.html |
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TextPad |
A very good free text editor I enjoyed. It is also Java enabled and displays the keywords ,comments, braces etc . of java in different colors. |
www.textpad.com |
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JAVA BOOKS I STUDIED |
1 |
Sam's teach yourself Java in 21 days - by
Laura Lemay |
When I was really new to Java, the '21 days' in the title attracted me. So I just downloaded and studied in a week and liked it. The authors explains the concepts in a easy way.Become a member
of this online books library for free and download this book. |
http://www.informit.com/ |
2 |
Java in a NutShel - by David Flangman |
I am basically from 'C' language background. I heard from many people that this is a very good book for such people. So I searched in the local library and studied and it is also really good.
The author of this book has a online Java API reference which is organized with methods , classes, and packageswise alphabetically. I found this reference also very useful at times. |
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido s/ASIN/1565924878/electricporkch op/002-8958979-4708037 http://www.ora.com/info/java/ |
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Thinking in Java - by Bruce Eckel |
Next I read this book.This is a good book which explains Java as an object oriented language in a very good way. We can understand the concepts in this book easily if we have some prior
knowledge of what Java is all about. This is also free in the internet. But it is worth to have our own printed book. |
http://www.codecuts.com/mainpage. asp?WebPageID=314 |
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JLS- Java Language Specification - by
James Gosling |
This book is from the designers of Java Language itself. It needs a careful reading .Each word in this book really means a concept. Reading and understaning this book's information will
definitly take our knowledge of Java to many steps up. |
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/ht ml/index.html |
5 |
Sun's - Inner class Specification |
Like JLS this Inner class speciffication also will really improve our knowledge of Inner classes. This is also from Sun. Worth to read. |
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1 /docs/guide/innerclasses/spec/innercl asses.doc.html |
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The Java Language Environment- A White Paper by by James Gosling ,
Henry McGilton |
A small and very good free book . Worth to read. |
http://java.sun.com/docs/white/lange nv/ |
CERTIFICATION BOOKS I STUDIED |
1 |
The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide by Roberts, Simon / Heller, Philip / Ernest, Michael |
In my opinion and also understood from others comments, even for experienced Java Programmers, to get Certified as SCJP , we need a special preparation. So I decided to buy a Certification
related book and read. This book, popularly known as R&H book, is considered as 'Bible for Java2 Certification' by many people who took the SCJP2 Certification Exam. I found this book is good but it
has lots of errors in the printed book. But almost all the errors are reported and corrected . The errata page is available on the internet. The first thing I did after I bought this book was, I took a
pencil and corrected all the errors from the Errata page in the printed book itself. Then I found that this book is really good. |
http://go.borders.com/fcgi-bin/part? PID=124003463&PAGE=http://sea rch.borders.com/fcgi-bin/db2www/s earch/search.d2w/Details%3Fcode
%3D0782127002%26mediaType% 3DBook%26searchType%3DISBN UPC |
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Roberts and Heller - Errata page . |
A must to have , preferrable as a printed format. It is good if we correct the errors in the book itself with a pen or pencil. |
. http://www.sybex.com/cgi-bin/rd_er r_temp.pl?2463err.html |
2 |
Java 2 Exam Cram, Exam Cram Ser.
by Brogdon, Bill |
This small book is really a good book which has all the important points to know for the SCJP2 Exam in a concentrated form. I used this book as a supplement to R&H book. |
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido s/ASIN/1576102912/o/qid%3D94 0708825/sr%3D8-1/002-8958979- 4708037 |
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JAVA2 - EXAM CRAM by Bill Brogden Errata page |
Bill's errors are less compared to R&H's. |
http://www.lanw.com/books/errata/ |
