Helpful Learning Sites
Has anybody noticed how many educations sites are out there for java. One site that I have enjoyed using since I started studying for SCJP is javablackbelt.com. The site takes a different approach to online quizzes and has made an entire community that participates in quiz evaluation and creation using two point systems.
Knowledge points are earn for passing quizzes. Knowledge points are used to determine what belt you have. The belts are white, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown, and black.
Contribution points are earned by submitting beta questions to a quiz section. Beta questions are voted on by other users. When the question earns enough votes from quiz takers it is released, earning more contribution points for you.
The belt track are free quizzes that can be taken in order. You must spend more contribution points to take quizzes outside of the belt track. The belt track starts at very basic java language questions and ends in an ultimate test in coding. From my calculations, the belt track can only get up to a blue belt. To earn higher belts you must participate in question contributions so you can take quizzes outside of the belt track. Quizzes outside of the belt track cover many technologies besides java like sql, ant, html, and css.
Currently, I'm an orange belt! I have only taken quizzes within the belt track but I have 12 contribution points.
If you are interested in testing your knowledge of java this is a very fun site to use. If you know of any other sites out there like this let me know!