As I posted before I want to get the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5, and I started buying from eBay the study guide, so today the book has arrived from Cork, Ireland in a perfect condition and seems to be new.

The contents at a glance are:

1. Declarations and Access Control
2. Object Orientation
3. Assignments
4. Operators
5. Flow Control, Exceptions, and Assertions
6. Strings, I/O, Formatting, and Parsing
7. Generics and Collections
8. Inner Classes
9. Threads
10. Development

As first sight the contents are not very complex, some Java basics but I’ll pay attention to the point 7, Generics and Collections because I have never worked with generics, in the last work we used the version 1.4.2 of Java and that versions doesn’t have generics but I know the theory and the use. The rest of the content doesn’t seem to be very hard but the tools which helps us to program our applications like IDE’s masks the basics of Java and I forget it a lot of times… So I think this exam will be a great opportunity to refresh this knowledge and learn new of course.

You will be posted with any new about that.

Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 is an official certification of Sun Microsystems which probes that you know Java version 5.

There are different certifications as the following graphic shows:

As you see, SCJP is the fisrt of the certifications and is needed for them, so you must do it first of all the rest.

I’m going to do this exam, when I don’t know but I’ve just purchased the official book on eBay like this and I hope to get the enough time to read it, I suppose I will know a lot of things but not much as I’m thinking because programming with an IDE has the advantage of earn time but in the other hand you forget the basics of the language because the autocompletion of the code and in addition, the use of the frameworks masks the real code of java and helps us to write more complex applications avoiding the basics.

I think is important to me to obtain the certification, first to reinforce my Java knowledge and improve my coding, then I don’t have to demostrate I’m a Java Programmer in any technical interview, and this certification will open the doors of the others.

What will be the next certification? Maybe the Sun Certified Web Component Developer or the Sun Certified Developer for Java Web Services, but I will think about it after getting the SCJP.