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 Excellent - I passed with 82%, May 3, 2023
It worked for me ! I passed the SCWCD 1.4 exam last week with 82% . I used this book as my core preparation material in combination with whizlabs exam testing software.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 Disappointing Effort, Apr 29, 2023
I was truly disappointed with this book. Kathy Siera is a very prominent figure in the Java world, but the style that she uses in her Head First Series is just not efficient enough. In other words, for some working professionals like me, getting to the point as fast as possible is a must, and these head first books are not doing that for me. You have to work your way through, ahem junk, to get to the useful stuff, and you waste time doing that. If you are like me, you would prefer a book that hits all the spots in the shortest way possible. I mean it is not really possible to read 500 something pages of junk in two weeks and get ready for your SCWCD exam. I know I 'll probably catch hell for this, but I do not recommend Head First series to serious developers. Instead, I recommend the Manning Publishing book "SCWCD Exam Study Kit," which also comes with JWEBPlus, which is a very cool test engine. Save yourself some time and stay away from this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Head First Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam, Apr 24, 2023
There it is on page 94: "Important note: while the first three chapters covered background information, from this page forward in the book, virtually everything you're going to see is directly related to or explicitly part of the exam."
I would expect this sort of thing from most of the certification industry, but not from O'Reilly. Essentially, this book covers the certification exam; that it also provides an introduction to Servlets and JSP is largely incidental. O'Reilly is certainly one of the most consistent, best publishers of technical material, and this book is very good. However, it is a surprise that they would publish a certification exam study guide rather than a serious tutorial about the material. Even though I have learned a good bit about Servlets, I am left wondering what they have left out, simply because it is not on the exam.
If you are looking for a SCWCDE study guide, this is it. If you are looking for a fast, good introduction to Servlets, this may also be it. But in the future, I'll probably give the Head First series a pass, and I'll be a little more careful about reflexively picking up O'Reilly books.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
God, This book is great, Apr 16, 2023
This book is the type of book that I, as a programmer, have wished existed for everything technical. Not only is it easy to understand, it explains it in good detail. The former is extremely hard to find in this business. I suggest it to anyone that wants to learn JSP's and servlets (but not if they're on a deadline).
Please head first... please make a book about struts??? Thanks :)
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
A Good Intro, But . . ., Apr 1, 2023
The Head First series style is a excellent vehicle for entry into a very difficult and obscure subject. In that, this book is great. Unlike the previous book in the series I've read, for the programmer/developer exams, which is seriously great, this one is rather weakly held together and perhaps a bit rushed. The test questions are occasionally (mostly in the case of chapter 10) not covered in the chapters, or even sometimes just wrong. The chapters have inconsistancies and gaps in explanations (is it or ?). And this is very important, the indexing is poor at best. You need the indexing so when you miss questions, you can look back and try to figure out what went wrong. So, think of it as a readable primer for a difficult subject -- there to get you started -- but you will need some external references to get through it. And let's all pull for a second edition and hope that this crew's next effort is a little more thorough (by the way -- I did pass the test).
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