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Hi all,

One of my friend is having 'scjp 1.5 study guide' book by Kathy Sierra and is willing to lend it to me. But I plan to take SCJP1.4 certification. Can I still use the above book for my preparation. Does it vary a lot from 1.4?
 
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What about looking at certification objectives?
 
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Hi Amisha,

Why to make life tougher unnecessarily! I would suggest you not to prepare from SCJP 5 book. It's always good other way around.

Thanks
Milind
 
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Stuff like bitwise operators are not covered in depth for the 1.5 exam. I would suggest you read from the 1.4 book but then again its up to you. You will have to carefully pick what to study and what not to, if time is of the essence.
 
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If your budget is tight you can pull it off - you need to find other material on bit shifting and bit twiddling, and on the Math class.

Then you need to study the two sets of objectives carefully to see what topics you can skip from the 5.0 book.

hth,

Bert
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