Join us! Dallas SCJD Study Group
Sun Certified Developer for JavaTM 2 Platform


3150 Members from All Over the World

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Our next meeting: Wednesday, 7:00-9:00pm, 01-23-2002 at JCPennys
Round table
Moderator and Speaker Pete Carapetyan
Is Open Source viable as a commercial solution? Pete Carapetyan will host this discussion on Open Source, Tools, Alternatives, and various open source projects including Apache, the various Apache Sub Projects, Expresso, Struts and more. Click
Java developers, if you have a cool presentation by using hot Java technologies, send an email to Bob Byron, please! You are our next show!
Congratulations to our newest SCJDs! See list of names and scores here!

General

Sun Certified Java Developer Exam Study Group (SCJD Group) was established by several of our members voluntarily on 11-17-1999. We are studying to pass SCJD exam. We have over 3150 members from every continents on earth. Our group logo was created by artist John Phillips. Thanks, John!

We use YahooGroups to communicate between group members. Our members study and present their topic, code, thought to each other. International and other long distance members study through our YahooGroups mailing list, post their presentation on our web site. This is our own web site for the purpose of posting this file, study materials, presentations, etc. The contents are subject to change upon SCJD Group's decisions.

When and Where:

Dallas/Fort Worth area local members meet fourth and alternative first Wednesday at JCPenney building on 12712 Park Central Place Dallas, TX , USA. See map and driving directions. See next meeting anouncements here! All of us meet each other in our YahooGroups on the Internet.

Study Material:

  1. The objectives of The Sun Certified Developer for the Java[tm] 2 Platform
  2. Whatever materials and knowledge are needed to do the exam assignment.
  3. Sun's sample questions
  4. FAQs
  5. Guideline for SCJD2 Exam writtern by our honor member, SCJD Shashank Tanksali
  6. Questions and Answers about SCJD Exam presented by our honor member, SCJD Paco Venegas
  7. The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide -- Simon Roberts, et al; Ch 14 - Ch19
  8. Java 1.2 Certification Exam Guide -- Barry Boone, William Stanek
  9. Useful study materials/links provided by our own members.
  10. Free Java Books
  11. Our members' presentations
  12. Handout by our members.
  13. Further study after your SCJD: SCEA reading list
  14. More to come

Who should join us (Our study formats and style if you like)

  1. Prerequisite: You are either SCJP or working hard on it.
  2. Commitment: Do whatever it takes to pass the Sun Certified Developer Exam (Java 2).
  3. You must have access to a computer, and feel comfortable to write Java code.
  4. Our members present Java and SCJD topics.
  5. Our web site publishes our members' presentations.
  6. You are willing to do research and review on certain topics to help other members.
  7. You are willing to share your Java knowledge and experiences with our other groups members.
  8. You are willing to participate our egroup discussions by asking and answering questions.
  9. International and other l-o-n-g distance members, we study together mainly through our egroup mailing list. You can participate our presentations too. See presentation page for details.
  10. To prevent the spreading of virus, email attachment will be discarded from our group emails. Upload your file to egroup File area instead.
  11. To put your name and passing score on our SCJD Honor Page, you must share your success story to our group member by sending the information to our mailing list. Only send your score to webmaster will not be accepted. However, send name correction after you sharing your experiences to the group will be accepted.
If you like what we are doing, you are welcome to join us. We need your participation, dedication, contribution and suggestions. We all work together to make a difference.

Who should NOT

It is good to be a walking Java compiler. It is better to be a Java developer.

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