Tips for the (SCJP) [Fountation Java on Platform J2SE 1.5]

Question

Does anybody have any tips or things i should know before the i take the (SCJP) [Fountation Java on Platform J2SE 1.5]? Any stuff i should definitly know.
Thank you.

Answer 1

The java tutorials.
Exam objectives:
http://ca.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/CX-310-055.xml
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/index.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/index.html
Shoud get you objectives 1,2, 4, (large part of) 5 and 7
3, 6 and some part of 5 are new to 1.5 or just API specific (Threads are delt with in the
tutorial but section 3 mentions some other classes you should know of).
In 1.4 you needed to know some swing but that seems to be gone now, use this tutorial
to get to know a little swing:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html
These you should allso read:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/autoboxing.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/TOC.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/regex/index.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/TOC.html
play arround with the following classes:
BufferedReader,BufferedWriter, File, FileReader, FileWriter, PrintWriter.
DataInputStream, DataOutputStream, FileInputStream, FileOutputStream, ObjectInputStream, ObjectOutputStream, Serializable.
That would get you about 90% of what you need to know, check the objectives and
read the tutorial if any objective is not in the URL's posted above than google for it
(note that this forum will put spaces in long URLs):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=nl&q=site%3Asun.com+%22anotherObjective%22+tutorial&btnG=Zoeken&meta=
For questions:
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=scjp+%22exam+questions%22&btnG=Zoeken&meta=
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