First Draft Java Capability Map

Novice

: May or may not have limited experience with Java or another programming language
: Shows a degree of proficiency with computers

Advanced Beginner

: Understands basic decision structures
: Feels comfortable with primitive data types, operators, and with often used classes in the standard libraries
: Can do some rudimentary maintenance if supervised
: Comfortable with basic features of the IDE
: Has basic understanding of I/O streams and file operations

Competent

: Can follow coding/commenting standards with little problem
: Beginning to conversationally understand O.O. concepts
: Can use primitives, operators, and common classes with some degree of proficiency and confidence
: Able to devise solutions to some problems with much research and help
: Able to do some coding and maintenance without supervision
: Has a clear picture of the Java event model
: Can implement error handling
: Can troubleshoot small bugs

Proficient

: Pays attention to industry trends and knows many ‘tricks of the trade’
: Has a functional grasp of O.O. concepts and design techniques. Needs very little clarification in concepts
: Aware of cross-platform portability and Virtual Machine issues
: Has a firm grasp of the standard libraries and often used 3rd party libraries
: Can devise solutions to problems with a moderate amount of research time.
: Somewhat proficient in code optimization
: Can code with almost no supervision
: Functional understanding of inheritance, interfaces, polymorphism, multithreading, and synchronization
: Uses error handling efficiently
: Understands how Java works across networks and with databases (JDBC)

Expert

: Has a firm understanding of O.O. concepts and design techniques. Sees the big picture of the design
: Makes the right trade offs between good design and performance.
: Understands what is happening on the byte code level, OS level, and the chip level when a program executes
: Clearly understands the differences between the different releases of Java, and can design accordingly
: Is an authority on code optimization
: Can design and implement solutions without any supervision
: Understands security issues
: Able to engineer servlets, and is comfortable with RMI + possibly CORBA
: Acutely aware of deployment issues

Master

Produced by ____ who is admittedly not at the Expert level. Still needs revision and validation by Expert level Java developers.

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