tankdilla's Journal: Wooohoooo!!!!!

Got my first certification this past weekend, the SCJP(Sun Certified Java Programmer) and i'm glad to be done with it. The sole purpose of the test is supposed to be to test how well you understand Java. For the most part it does, but it's really out to try and trick you. They throw devious questions at you getting you thinking along one path, following the flow of execution, and then the correct answer turns out to be a missing semicolon or a overly-restrictive access modifier or something like that. It tries to see how well you can act like a compiler and crash the same way it would, either at compile time, during runtime, or letting dubioius code actually execute even though it looks like a retard coded it. I guess it will pay off when i'm coding. It seems like it'll help become a more meticulous debugger, but it may help in actual coding too. After reading the book twice and taking numerous mock exams over the web, i'm just glad to be done.