Mandatory Course Requirement for OCMJD & OCMJEA starting October 1st

If someone does or has started some sort of group outside of the ranch for this, please post it here. I obviously put off working for my next cert way too long and am pretty much on the same page as everyone else - I have no clue what Oracle's purpose would be other than to try to kill the certifications.

As a side question, any chance we could see a "Java Ranch Certified Programmer", "Java Ranch Certified Developer", ... any time soon ;)

Brian Burress wrote:If someone does or has started some sort of group outside of the ranch for this, please post it here.

Don't quite understand what you talking about here

Roel De Nijs wrote:

Brian Burress wrote:If someone does or has started some sort of group outside of the ranch for this, please post it here.

Don't quite understand what you talking about here

Sorry, I was commenting on the prior post:

Roel De Nijs wrote:I don't think JavaRanch will start a poll concerning this, but you are of course free to start some facebook group or take some action on twitter or ...

If someone has started a facebook group or something else, post a link or comment about it here so those interested may participate.

Practicality wise. OCMJD or i5 Laptop? both cost 1000USD.

I'm not sure my work would pay for a new laptop for me ;-)

I've been asked to look into this from my work as a few of us have recently done our programmer exams. From looking at the certification paths and courses it seems that ultimately I still have to do one of the fundamentals courses. Initially I thought I may just be able to do the Java SE 7 New Features course or the Java SE Performance Tuning course but each of these courses have pre-requisites of another course. This can mean the difference of paying $900 or $2250 and the courses vary in length and this time would also have to be paid for. Also from what I can see, the self study CDs do not count so I would need to either do Live virtual teaching or classroom.

Anyone have any advice on this, has anyone here actually done a mandatory course looking towards Developer certification?

Mike Smyth wrote:Anyone have any advice on this, has anyone here actually done a mandatory course looking towards Developer certification?

I think this thread contains some valuable information.

Roel De Nijs wrote:

Mike Smyth wrote:Anyone have any advice on this, has anyone here actually done a mandatory course looking towards Developer certification?

I think this thread contains some valuable information.

thanks for that. I also got a reply from Oracle saying something similar. I'm looking at the Java tuning course as a possibility