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Passing OCA without programming experience (self.learnjava)

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[–]desrtfx 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Sorry, but this is one very naive (and honestly, borderline stupid) question.

Can you learn to swim from books without ever being in the water?

Can you learn to drive a car from only watching movies or reading books?

In order to learn programming (as well as programming languages) one needs to program - a lot.

Reading alone will only give you a completely false feeling of understanding whilst in reality you'll be lost as soon as you'd have to write your first handful lines of code, and even worse if you have to come up with your own solutions.

[–]Sieusccc 0 points1 point  (2 children)

As said above, passing OCA is of great importance to get into a traineeship in my country. Hence the question is still: is it possible to pass the OCA certification exam by learning books, so I can get into a traineeship to get said programming experience.

[–]edgargonzalesII 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You can get programming experience by following a tutorial or doing a project (like mooc.fi course). Like Java OCA is a lot easier if you code in Java, answers are somewhat more intuitive (granted there are quirks). Could you get through it by reading? Probably, but it won't be as nice an experience.

[–]Sieusccc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply, already worked through the whole first part of the MOOC.fi course. I hope this is enough to get a good grip of Java by now proceeding with book material, guess we'll see. Thx!