The goal is your subsequently passing the SCPJ2 Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform. Mughal, an associate professor in Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway, and his Java programming collaborator Rasmussen, who wrote the review questions and answers, are thoroughly familiar with their topic and are excellent at technological textbook writing. These gentlemen have produced a volume of sufficient depth to fill a two-credit college semester or more. A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification is also nicely designed and produced. The layout is economical and the typographic conventions delightfully unexceptional.
Illustrative content is handled especially adroitly.
A wide variety of diagramming systems is correctly and scientifically applied to the various topics under discussion. Screenshots are used where appropriate, clipped to areas of interest and not used as page filler. The example code is tastefully done. Answers to the copious review questions are thoughtfully annotated. The book is nicely indexed.