Each chapter is around 80 pages and gets into the nitty gritty details about everything. I couldn't believe the amount of detail explained in chapter 1. It was almost overwhelming but since I already know Java (to an extent) and have been programming for many many years I think I'll be fine. I just have to make sure to do all the quizes, exercises, and 2 minute drills several times, then do practice exams for a while (you pay for that) before taking the real exam. I'm 150 pages into the 800 page book now. I think I'll be doing the exam sometime in November.
I'm now thinking this SCJP exam study guide book is a better book to read than O'Reilly's Java in a nutshell book. The nutshell book is very thick, but 300 pages of it are on the Java language. The rest is an API reference. I thought it was quite thorough when I read it but they couldn't have been as thorough as SCJP (300 pages vs 800 pages).
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
