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Quick Notes: SCJP 1.6 (Sun Certified Java Programmer)

This articel contains quick notes which I did during reading  Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide - SCJP. Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates. Also it was extended with some additional notes from official Java doc API which are not required for SCJP 6. If you gonna pass SCJP exam - it will be the best crib.    1           DECLARATION & ACCESS CONTROL 1.1       Ranges of Numeric Primitives Type Bits Bytes Min. Range -2 (bits-1) Max. Range 2 (bits-1) -1 byte 8 1 -2 7 2 7 -1 short 16 2 -2 15 2 15 -1 int 32 4 -2 31 2 31 -1 float 32 4 n/a n/a long 64 8 -2 63 2 63 -1 double 64 8 n/a n/a 1.2         Comparison of modifiers on variables vs. methods Local Variables Non-local Variables Methods final fi...

Google’s History: A Visual Look at the Search Engine’s Timeline

Launch in 1998, the company founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, has continued to grow and always expanded more and more. Today when thinking of Google it isn’t just a search engine anymore but also one of the biggest advertising platform world wide (the biggest?), a software distributor and a mobile phone manufacturer. Google is rumoured to venture even further and recently announced Google TV, an operating system for television sets. Only yesterday the company announced that it is positioning itself better in the VOIP and telephony space as well. Nobody knows when the company will stop to acquire and expand its services. 'Techproceed' team had a look at the history and timeline of Google and all this info was compiled in an infographic.