SCJP 6.0
Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne wrote:these days anyone without scjp is like the stuff the cow leaves behind...
Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne wrote:Yeah... I kinda relate to poor Fritz so i was trying to motivate him to pass the exam ... didn't mean any harm though...
SCJP 6.0
Fritz Guerilus wrote:
Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne wrote:Yeah... I kinda relate to poor Fritz so i was trying to motivate him to pass the exam ... didn't mean any harm though...
No harm done. It was funny.
I am plenty motivated enough but I need a direction to focus on.
Step1: pass the SCJP.
Step2: work on getting hands on experience.
Step3: figure out the next step...LOL
Thank you Arulk & Suranga for the support
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roger wong wrote:Why not continue to get the SCWCD?
SCJP 6.0
Fritz Guerilus wrote:
roger wong wrote:Why not continue to get the SCWCD?
The SCWCD is a possibility.
But at this point, I plan on quantifying and building on the SCJP with hands-on experience.
The SCJP only proves to others you know the JAVA language, but applying the knowledge takes practice, practice, practice and more practice.
Once I have a solid enough foundation, I can accuarately plan a career path.
Everyone has different goals/plans. I don't only want to be a java programmer, but a software architect.
So that means JAVA is one of many languages I will have to learn and use.
Unfortunately I find that hiring managers don't think much of the SCJP cert (only my opinon).
They prefer hands-on experience and tangible examples.
But having the cert does help get your foot in the door.
SCJP 6.0
arulk pillai wrote:--Tutorials
You can google for heaps of tutorials. For example
-- http://www.javapassion.com/
-- http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
-- Self-taught projects
-- Start working on your own project. To get started, google for eclipse based java tutorials or Netbeans based java tutorials. Choose the IDE you like and expand your tutorial into a project.
-- Open-source contribution
once you are more comfortable and have hands-on experience, then
-- You can learn from and enhance your coding skills by looking at others’ code.
-- You can get feedback from others on your code.
-- You can enhance your ability to understand problems and develop effective solutions for it.
-- You can proudly mention your contribution on your resume.
If you are still not convinced, go to http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch and search for "open source".
Where do I look for open source projects?
-- http://www.sourceforge.net/
-- http://dev.java.net/
-- http://jakarta.apache.org/
-- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/projects.jsp
-- http://www.google.co.in/search?q=Apache+Java+projects
-- https://www.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectList
-- https://openjdk.dev.java.net/
-- http://developers.sun.com/javadb/
-- http://www.netbeans.org/
-- https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/devindex.html
-- http://www.ohloh.net/
-- http://www.freshmeat.net/
-- http://code.google.com/
-- Volunteer work
While working on all the above, approach organizations for volunteer work on a part-time basis.
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