SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide BY Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates

SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide BY Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates
SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide BY Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates


Book Details:
Book Title: SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 (Study Guide)
Author: Katherine Sierra & Bert Bates
Paperback: 890 Pages
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
Year: 8/July/2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780070264984
ISBN-13: 978-0070264984
ASIN: 0070264988
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CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Declarations and Access Control

  • Java Refresher
  • Identifiers & JavaBeans (Objectives 1.3 and 1.4)
  • Legal Identifiers
  • Sun's Java Code Conventions
  • JavaBeans Standards
  • Declare Classes (Exam Objective 1.1)
  • Source File Declaration Rules
  • Class Declarations and Modifiers
  • Exercise 1-1: Creating an Abstract Superclass and Concrete Subclass
  • Declare Interfaces (Exam Objectives 1.1 and 1.2)
  • Declaring an Interface
  • Declaring Interface Constants
  • Declare Class Members (Objectives 1.3 and 1.4)
  • Access Modifiers
  • Nonaccess Member Modifiers
  • Constructor Declarations
  • Variable Declarations
  • Declaring Enums


 Chapter 2: Object Orientation

  • Encapsulation (Exam Objective 5.1)
  • Inheritance, Is-A, Has-A (Exam Objective 5.5)
  • IS-A
  • HAS-A
  • Polymorphism (Exam Objective 5.2)
  • Overriding / Overloading (Exam Objectives 1.5 and 5.4)
  • Overridden Methods
  • Overloaded Methods
  • Reference Variable Casting (Objective 5.2)
  • Implementing an Interface (Exam Objective 1.2)
  • Legal Return Types (Exam Objective 1.5)
  • Return Type Declarations
  • Returning a Value
  • Constructors and Instantiation (Exam Objectives 1.6, 5.3, and 5.4)
  • Determine Whether a Default Constructor Will Be Created
  • Overloaded Constructors
  • Statics (Exam Objective 1.3)
  • Static Variables and Methods
  • Coupling and Cohesion (Exam Objective 5.1)


 Chapter 3: Assignments

  • Stack and Heap—Quick Review
  • Literals, Assignments, and Variables (Exam Objectives 1.3 and 7.6)
  • Literal Values for All Primitive Types
  • Assignment Operators
  • Exercise 3-1: Casting Primitives
  • Using a Variable or Array Element That Is Uninitialized and Unassigned
  • Local (Stack, Automatic) Primitives and Objects
  • Passing Variables into Methods (Objective 7.3)
  • Passing Object Reference Variables
  • Does Java Use Pass-By-Value Semantics?
  • Passing Primitive Variables
  • Array Declaration, Construction, and Initialization (Exam Objective 1.3)
  • Declaring an Array
  • Constructing an Array
  • Initializing an Array
  • Initialization Blocks
  • Using Wrapper Classes and Boxing (Exam Objective 3.1)
  • An Overview of the Wrapper Classes
  • Creating Wrapper Objects
  • Using Wrapper Conversion Utilities
  • Autoboxing
  • Overloading (Exam Objectives 1.5 and 5.4)
  • Garbage Collection (Exam Objective 7.4)
  • Overview of Memory Management and Garbage Collection
  • Overview of Java's Garbage Collector
  • Writing Code That Explicitly Makes Objects Eligible for Collection
  • Exercise 3-2: Garbage Collection Experiment


 Chapter 4: Operators

  • Java Operators (Exam Objective 7.6)
  • Assignment Operators
  • Relational Operators
  • instanceof Comparison
  • Arithmetic Operators
  • Conditional Operator
  • Logical Operators


 Chapter 5: Flow Control, Exceptions, and Assertions

  • if and switch Statements (Exam Objective 2.1)
  • if-else Branching
  • switch Statements
  • Exercise 5-1: Creating a switch-case Statement
  • Loops and Iterators (Exam Objective 2.2)
  • Using while Loops
  • Using do Loops
  • Using for Loops
  • Using break and continue
  • Unlabeled Statements
  • Labeled Statements
  • Exercise 5-2: Creating a Labeled while Loop
  • Handling Exceptions (Exam Objectives 2.4 and 2.5)
  • Catching an Exception Using try and catch
  • Using finally
  • Propagating Uncaught Exceptions
  • Exercise 5-3: Propagating and Catching an Exception
  • Defining Exceptions
  • Exception Hierarchy
  • Handling an Entire Class Hierarchy of Exceptions
  • Exception Matching
  • Exception Declaration and the Public Interface
  • Rethrowing the Same Exception
  • Exercise 5-4: Creating an Exception
  • Common Exceptions and Errors(Exam Objective 2.6)
  • Working with the Assertion Mechanism (Exam Objective 2.3)
  • Assertions Overview
  • Enabling Assertions
  • Using Assertions Appropriately


 Chapter 6: Strings, I/O, Formatting, and Parsing

  • String, StringBuilder, and StringBuffer (Exam Objective 3.1)
  • The String Class
  • Important Facts About Strings and Memory
  • Important Methods in the String Class
  • The StringBuffer and StringBuilder Classes
  • Important Methods in the StringBuffer and StringBuilder Classes
  • File Navigation and I/O (Exam Objective 3.2)
  • The java.io.Console Class
  • Serialization (Exam Objective 3.3)
  • Dates, Numbers, and Currency (Exam Objective 3.4)
  • Working with Dates, Numbers, and Currencies
  • Parsing, Tokenizing, and Formatting (Exam Objective 3.5)
  • A Search Tutorial
  • Locating Data via Pattern Matching
  • Tokenizing
  • Formatting with printf() and format()


 Chapter 7: Generics and Collections

  • Overriding hashCode() and equals() (Objective 6.2)
  • Overriding equals()
  • Overriding hashCode()
  • Collections (Exam Objective 6.1)
  • So What Do You Do with a Collection?
  • List Interface
  • Set Interface
  • Map Interface
  • Queue Interface
  • Using the Collections Framework (Objectives 6.3 and 6.5)
  • ArrayList Basics
  • Autoboxing with Collections
  • Sorting Collections and Arrays
  • Navigating (Searching) TreeSets and TreeMaps
  • Other Navigation Methods
  • Backed Collections
  • Generic Types (Objectives 6.3 and 6.4)
  • Generics and Legacy Code
  • Mixing Generic and Non-generic Collections
  • Polymorphism and Generics
  • Generic Methods
  • Generic Declarations


 Chapter 8: Inner Classes

  • Inner Classes
  • Coding a "Regular" Inner Class
  • Referencing the Inner or Outer Instance from Within the Inner Class
  • Method-Local Inner Classes
  • What a Method-Local Inner Object Can and Can't Do
  • Anonymous Inner Classes
  • Plain-Old Anonymous Inner Classes, Flavor One
  • Plain-Old Anonymous Inner Classes, Flavor Two
  • Argument-Defined Anonymous Inner Classes
  • Static Nested Classes
  • Instantiating and Using Static Nested Classes


 Chapter 9: Threads

  • Defining, Instantiating, and Starting Threads (Objective 4.1)
  • Defining a Thread
  • Instantiating a Thread
  • Starting a Thread
  • Thread States and Transitions (Objective 4.2)
  • Thread States
  • Preventing Thread Execution
  • Sleeping
  • Exercise 9-1: Creating a Thread and
  • Putting It to Sleep
  • Thread Priorities and yield( )
  • Synchronizing Code (Objective 4.3)
  • Synchronization and Locks
  • Exercise 9-2: Synchronizing a Block of Code
  • Thread Deadlock
  • Thread Interaction (Objective 4.4)
  • Using notifyAll( ) When Many Threads
  • May Be Waiting


 Chapter 10: Development

  • Using the javac and java Commands (Exam Objectives 7.1, 7.2, and 7.5)
  • Compiling with javac
  • Launching Applications with java
  • Searching for Other Classes
  • JAR Files (Objective 7.5)
  • JAR Files and Searching
  • Using Static Imports (Exam Objective 7.1)
  • Static Imports


 System Requirements
Installing and Running Master Exam
Master Exam
Electronic Book
Help
Removing Installation(s)
Technical Support
LearnKey Technical Support
Index

About Books:
SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide (Exam 310-065) is a study guide that has been written by those developers who came up with the Sun Certified Programmer for Java exam. This study guide is inclusive of all the latest updates and objectives that have been made to the new release of this exam. On-the-job elements and chapter-wise self-tests have also been provided in this book. This study guide is considered to be a fully integrated study programme in itself, owing to the fact that it provides its readers with all that they need to know, concerning this exam. It includes more than 250 questions for practice, which are highly accurate. The CD-ROM that has been provided with this book has a practice test-engine and two free practice exams as well. One of these exams is already on the given CD, while the other can be downloaded after a free registration that must be done online. The book covers all the topics that pertain to this exam. These include Operators, Declarations and Access Control, Formatting and Parsing, Assignments, I/O, Object Orientation, Flow Control, Exceptions and Assertions, Strings, Generics and Collections, Inner Classes, Threads and Development. SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide (Exam 310-065) was published by McGraw-Hill Education, in the year 2008 and is available in paperback.

Key Features:

  • The book comes with two practice exam papers.
  • The author has made sure to cover all the topics that pertain to this exam.


About Author:
The authors of SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide (Exam 310-065) are Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates. Kathy Sierra is the co-developer of the SCJP exam along with Sun's practice exam. Apart from this, she is an experienced Sun Certified Java Instructor and also the founder of Javaranch.com, which is the largest Java certification website in the world. Bert Bates is a Sun Certified Programmer for Java. He has been instrumental in the development of the SCJP exam and also Sun's practice exam.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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