You searched for entries containing the word "rewarding".

Matching entries are ordered according to their relevance and not the date they were posted.

Interesting use of game theory in public fora. Or how to win at collaborative ratings systems.

Plus, pay £100, take a multiple choice exam, become a Sun Certified Java Programmer. Sweet. I'm going to do it.

I passed my exam! I got 88%, 54 questions right out of 61. I'm well chuffed. I had no idea whether I would pass or not right up until when they told me my mark. The test was pretty hard. I had a good twenty minutes at the end to check through my answers and there were a good fifteen that I wasn't confident about. I think I may have been quite lucky in some of my choices.

I got a good breakdown of the test. Threads and garbage collection were my weak points. Especially threads. GC isn't so bad, there were three questions, I got one wrong. Overall, I got 100% in five of the nine areas.

All in all this is my best exam performance since about 1995. I think it may also be the first time I've revised since then. I did work moderately hard on the revision.

Afterwards I celebrated with a trip to Blackmarket Records and a new Warp t-shirt from Selectadisc. To be honest, that was more my usual pattern of rewarding myself for going to Soho. Used the tube competently again, well done me.

Last updated at 0:35, Monday December 1st, 2008. All times are shown in 24-hour clock format and are GMT.

Rate my journal on bloghop.com: