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Summary: Quirky presentation will reap rewards.
Comment: Ordinarily, I'd regard myself as having a healthy cynicism for the style and approach of the Head First series; all those pictures and diagrams, and characters with thought bubbles appearing throughout the book, are, well, a bit frivolous and dizzy. Just give me the facts, in a straightforward manner, and I'll learn the material, thank you very much.
However, I've been converted. This book, while appearing wacky and perhaps ludicrous, does what it claims to do, with aplomb. All those funky graphics do actually help to break up what is a rather large amount of information that you need to absorb in order to pass the Sun Certified Web Component Developer exam; they are beneficial to your learning, and indeed almost become endearing.
I quickly realised my aloof attitude was unfounded, and that this was a quality learning tool. I threw myself into the book and surprised myself with the wealth of knowledge that I gained.
Many of the facets of web applications, of which I had a cursory understanding prior to reading this book, began to slot into place, and their relevance to one another became apparent as I progressed through the book. The big picture was revealed bit by bit.
Either to learn more about how web applications work, or to pass your SCWCD exam, this book has plenty to offer those with little hands-on experience of coding web applications, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
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Summary: Head first book is good
Comment: Even though this book takes long time to read, it is very easy to understand. The only problem is it goes very slow.
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Summary: Good for SCWCD exam Preparation
Comment: I just passed the SCWCD exam today using this book as my sole preparation tool and I did not have much experience with J2ee. This book also includes explanation of how to deploy applications in Tomcat. Although I did not try all the code examples in the book, the ones I tried worked without any problem. The ideal way of studying this book would be deploy all example code in Tomcat 5.0 and test it to make sure it works. Make sure you get the errata on the publisher's website, it is about 20 pages in length. If it were not for the numerous pictures and funny stuff, this book would be about half its original size. Quite frankly I would prefer the condensed version but the topics are still laid out and presented well. Overall it is worth buying if you are new to Web Component piece of J2EE.
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Summary: Superb prep for SCWCD Exam
Comment: I highly recommend this book if you are planning on taking the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam for J2EE 1.4. With this book as my primary study material, I was able to pass the exam with flying colors on my first try (I needed 2 attempts to pass the SCJP).
The book manages to keep the material reasonably interesting and even has some bits of humor here and there to help prevent falling asleep. The exercises were very useful in reinforcing the material, and I found the practice exam to be a good mock test for the real deal. In fact, I found the practice exam to be harder than the real deal.
While the book is quite thick, I did not find it to be a chore to read through the whole thing. The pages are not just straight text but contain numerous pictures, diagrams and other visual aides that were very helpful in comprehending the material.
Overall, this is a terrific book for studying for the SCWCD Exam and serves as a handy reference when there is something about Java web application development that I need a refresher on.
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Summary: Awesome work. Must get for JSP/Servlets
Comment: It was just two days since I have been owning this book and in this two days I was able to finish first 5 chapters. This is something which amazes me. It's like reading a story book. i love this book very much. There have been times when I wondered if I would master J2EE concepts. But now, I feel that I can go ahead for furthur advanced topics with the basics that I learned from this book.
Hat's off to Head First series.
I would strongly recommend this book to anyone having a fair knowledge on Java.
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