Pedro Struck

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Thanks! I sent the email.

Now off to studying and practicing a lot!
When you finish a test with the Enthuware practice test, does it tell you what topics did you miss most? I rememver when I had the OCA exam, at the end of the exam there was a report for some wrong answered questions and respective topics.

Thank you!
Hi! My question is not about the contents of the certification but the importance of it.

I am brazilian and I do have the OCA certification and almost three years of proven experience. I intend to go to Canada (I understand that you guys are from the U.S., but I think the IT companies have similar views) next year (fingers crossed) and I'd like to know if an OCP could mean the difference between getting a position or not. Have you ever seen a "certification degree" be the tie-breaking criterion in a candidate selection? I ask this because, as an imigrant, we arrive at the country with no "english company experience" and I think we have to "give" a little more to show that we're valuable and we know our craft.

Either way, It's been 2 years since my OCA and I'm very motivated to start my studies for the OCP, especially with the new Java 17 one.

Thanks and have a great week! Good luck to everyone!
Hi Scott and Jeanne,

I'm about to take the OCA 8 (1Z0-808) and I intend to continue my path on the certifications and java knowledge in general. I know that the 809, the "OCP 8", still exists, but I read that it's possible to take the OCP 11-Unified (1Z0-819) straight away after 808. But, in a "knowledge aquiring" point of view, is it ok to just skip the 809 study material and go directly to 815/816 material (since there's no 819s specific material at the moment)? Will I be losing anything or I'll be just ok if I learn from the new Java 11 complete study guide?

Thank you for the attention and congratulations on publishing the books!
Nice! Thank you!

I'm just starting to study Spring again. This was great timing.
3 years ago
Thank you guys for the answers. This part really stuck with me, because I sure was one of the "some" that think it's good mainly for small projects.

Craig Walls wrote:
I'll be honest and say that I don't understand why some think that Spring Boot is only good for small projects when, in fact, it really starts to shine on large-scale projects.



I think what happens is the focus on the advantage that you need very little configuration to start (in Spring learning materials). My question was also a product of my inexperience. I only started a year ago in my firsst serious software development job. I think I need to delve deeper in Spring, then. Thank you for the food for thought. This was sure helpful.
3 years ago
Hi, Craig. You cited Spring Boot for application setup as a latest best practice. Spring Boot really speed's up the setup time, as I observed in a simple test project. But I wonder if it's really used by big companies in complex systems. I thought it was more for small projects that don't require too much configuration.


Is it a common practice, in the current state of the framework in 2020, to start a project with Spring Boot and gradually add custom configurations, even for big companies with complex systems?

Thank you.
3 years ago
Nice! Email sent. Thanks for everyone involved!
3 years ago

Trisha Gee wrote:"It depends". Sorry!

But it's really going to depend upon:
- The business domain of your application
- Your non-functional requirements (performance etc)
- The technology stack
- The team

and most importantly: You. Where you are now career-wise, where you want to be.



That's ok, don't worry. haha Was kind of expecting that answer. I guess the trick is not 'panic' about learning every single topic right away but it's rather a nice guide for interesting topics that a Java programmer shold be aware of. I think I'm still a beginner so I'll take the books lessons as "Here it is, kid. This is a bunch of things that your fellow java seniors encountered till now. Go have a look at these."

Thank you, Trisha.
3 years ago
I'm glad that there's 97 things that professionals recognize that are important but what is the weight of importance of each topic? What are the priorities? For example, TDD, Kotlin, Uncheck your exceptions. (reading from the index).

Thank you.
3 years ago
I don't have a certification yet. I wonder for how long the OCA Java 8 will still be relevant. Since the exam is the same price as the new OCPJP for Java 11, I wanted to know what would be wiser in the 2019's end of the year.

Thank you.


Some comments about the original code:
1. It is better to avoid unecessary comments  like "variables". It's ok in the beginning of learning but avoid it as quickly as you can.
2. Remember to close the Scanner! (input.close())
3. Examine the starting and ending points of your loops carefuly.

Now, for the Java pros, I am asking a question: do you have a better code for this one, a cleaner one? I'm asking cause sometimes I don't know if it's good practice to use a control variable for the loop, since it's an additional variable. In this case, it is the boolean 'guessed'.

Thank you.
5 years ago
What is "Enter option"? You should explain a little better to the user what is he/she required to do.
5 years ago
Welcome Jean-Marcel and/or John!

Regarding the book Learning Java by Building Android games, I have a question regarding simple implementations of board games.

Recently I have been tinkering with Java Swing to try and make a GUI for my console application for a game (not a game in itself). Although buttons and checkboxes would do the job, I'd like to ask if there is a better framework to work with, 'better' meaning, easier to use, and abstracting the nested elements (like the buttons in frames and etc in Java Swing).

Also, I'd like to ask if there is a framework ready to recognize common objects in board games like "hand of cards", tiles, spaces on the board (not just squares, but hexagons, like the ones in the 18xx board game series, etc).

Thank you for the attention.
5 years ago
Thank you for the clarification and for the welcome message. I'll read the links.

See ya!
5 years ago