How to Prepare for the Exam

By taking and passing the programmer exam, you are well on your way to taking the developer exam. The developer exam requires additional experience in two areas:

  • Hands-on Java programming

  • More breadth and depth of knowledge of the Java 2 API

By passing the programmer exam, you have demonstrated your ability to write small Java applications. In addition, you have demonstrated your ability to read and work with the Java API documentation in so far as the fundamental API classes are concerned. You simply need to extend your programming skill to an application the size of the developer programming assignment and your API knowledge to the topics listed in the previous section. Depending on your current programming skills, ...

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