Originally posted by Johannes de Jong:
Kahty what are your comments about this review on Amazon of your & Bills Bates book Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide (Exam 310-035 & 310-027)
Howdy -- unfortunately I think this reviewer is right (although the one-star really hurts
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The title of our book IS misleading, and Bert and I were not able to choose the name of the book.
We believe our book should be treated as an SCJP book that includes a "bonus" section on the SCJD.
We *do* think that the Developer info we have is useful, but NOT worth buying the book for if you are already an SCJP. That's why we're trying to make most of the Developer info available for free online, for those of you in this forum who have already passed SCJP.
So we're trying to do what we can for damage control by posting on javaranch to let people know that our book is almost exclusively an SCJP book, and also I posted a five-star review of Max's book on Amazon, specifically stating that
you should buy HIS book if you working on the developer certification only, rather than ours.
I guess our official position is:
* Our book is for SCJP.
* It does happen to contain some useful bonus information on the SCJD
* Our book does NOT (in spite of the name and wording on the cover) offer "complete coverage" of the SCJD.
* Buy our book only if you are not yet an SCJP (or you have an unlimited budget for books
* If you are already an SCJP, we recommend Max's book as the best source of help and information on actually building the Developer exam project.
* Because we *do* feel that our Developer information is useful, it is not worth buying the whole book just for that. And that's why we want to make as much of the Developer section as we can available for Developer certification candidates who have already passed SCJP (and thus do not need another SCJP book!)
* So we do NOT believe that our book and Max's book are complimentary. Our INFORMATION and Max's are complintary, covering different aspects of the exam, but his is a book worth buying for the SCJD info, and ours is not.
OK, so that all said, we'll do our best to post as much (probably ALL) of our Developer cert chapters as we can get away with. You could help us in return by letting others know that they should not buy our book just for the Developer info, unless they have plenty of money to burn.
However, we of course believe we have the best SCJP book
If not the best, definitely the friendliest
cheers,
Kathy