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I have started preparing for SCJP

January 27th, 2010

Its been a year since I purchased the voucher for SCJP 5.0. But I cant concentrate to have time to prepare it. From last night I have taken the oath to finally make it done. I have started with the book SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Exam 310-055) by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates.

A remarkable thing is I purchased the free retake voucher which is going to expire on June 2010. But I still didnt make even a single attempt. Ok thats all right. I am going to do it. I hope to appear for the successful first attempt in good marks.

I am not using any IDE for coding practice. I am using Notepad++ editor and command line Javac compilation. I want to get maximum of language fundamentals and want to think out of code completion feature.

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SCJP Plus Beta Certification exam delayed

August 28th, 2009

When I came to know that Sun is giving away the opportunity to sign up for newly launched SCJP i.e. Sun Java Programmer Plus certification. I registered for it. According to them Selected candidates will be given the opportunity to appear in beta test for free. But still they have this announcement on their website.

And just recently I got an email from Sun that hey have delayed this certification.

Dear Tahir,

Thank you for your interest in the Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification – Sun’s first performance based Java Certification exam.

We wanted to inform you that the full beta for the new Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification has been delayed to later in this year based on the results from initial beta testing and to align more closely with the upcoming release of JDK 7. We will get back in touch with you as soon as we have revised dates for the full beta test.

If you have any questions or feedback, please send a message to sunlearninglink@sun.com

Thank you,

Sun Microsystems

I don’t know why they suppress SCJP6 and 5 exam. I think many people (me too) have purchased SCJP 5 voucher and preparing for it. When I hear this news I was getting afraid that might be SCJP 5 got expired. Thank God its not. I found similar discussion on  I found on CodeRanch forum when I was searching this announcement on Internet.

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Google Code Jam is back for year 2009

July 22nd, 2009

code_jam_logoGoogle has announced its annual programming competition for year 2009.

According to Google blog

Registration is now open, so you can find out more about the contest, and practice on some sample problems. Practice hard! If you make it to the top 500, you’ll travel to a nearby Google office for our semifinal round. If you’re in the top 100, we’ll fly you to our Mountain View headquarters to compete with the world’s very best.

Google is taking this competition as a fine grained recruiting process. Because while registering with Code Jam they will ask what Google office location suits you. Well fair enough, they are giving money to winners and an offer to work in Google. I hope this time I will be able to solve problems in qualification round. Last time I able to solve only one problem which works fine by given test cases but Google didn’t accept :( . That fairly means I need more practice.

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