Ignorance of the authors, shame of the business. Review on Whizlabs

I totally believe the authors of the positive reviews are using this place to advertize the ''products'' of the Whizlabs.

I ordered a ''bundle'' of the SCJP and SCEA exams in a big hurry and did not notice a little scam right there in the ordering process. The bundle was advertized as ''buy one get one free'' but they charged me for both products explaining that the third product was the ''exam engine.'' I would let this little scam go unnoticed if the engine was a good one and if it was working. As the ''engine'' was installing I felt a bit of an uh-huh looking at the names of the files it was copying... It looked like a very old Visual Basic application. Writing a Java exam on Visual Basic 3??? Uh-huh. As I started the ''engine'' for which the scamsters dared to charge me extra, more of an uh-huh followed.

First, the activation process. The ''engine'' gives you 2 options to activate the app:

1. Activate through the net. It asks you your name as of the receipt, your e-mail, the product key, it generates very long ''installation key'' and asks you to push the button to verify all that through the Internet with all that to get the application activated and running.

   
   




2. Activate with a key file downloaded from their site. It claimed like I could get an activation file from the Net by going to their site, providing my name as of the receipt, my e-mail, the product key and that long-long ''installation key'' generated by the activation screen. This did not work: all information carefully verified and copied and pasted from the receipt and the activation screen resulted in 404 error on their site. Which means, I can't install this ''engine'' on another computer. I can't take it to my office, right.

   
   

That's more tedious, more idiotic activation idea than that of the Microsoft XP line!

So I got myself past the net activation and into the running app. Next uh-huh typical for poorly written, amateurish Visual Basic application: buttons off-screen, some controls crammed together so you can't tell which control is which and to which label it relates and no menu shortcuts for the buttons that are off-screen rendering the screen unusable. I wrote an e-mail to their tech support, they suggested changing my screen resolution to 800x600! Just like back in mid-1990s, standard issue advice from supporters of early VB apps who did not know how or did not bother to write decent code. And that's the guys who are hired to teach me. Too bad I can't attach screenshots to the review, that's hilarious. Now comes the worst part. Errors. Factual errors that reveal authors ignorance in the very basics of the subject they dare to teach. Here's the very first one I found: they ask you what value will b have after running this snippet:

String s1 = ''MyString'';

String s2 = ''MyString'';

boolean b = s1==s2;

And their ''correct'' answer was ''false''! 8-O And their ''explanation'' went like this: ''== operator compares object references...'' The moron who wrote it did not even know about the Java string pool!! There are more examples that being compiled and run prove them wrong. About one wrong answer per theme in average. They did not even bother to run their own examples, they did not even bother to learn the very basics of Java. I quit looking at this product after I saw the reference to the Number object that lives in the java.Lang package. Yes, L in ''Lang'' uppercase.

That's a scam, folks. Total, shameless, third world scam as good as Nigerian, to get your money. They have office in Minnesota and I am reporting that office to the Federal Trade Commission and the BBB as a scam.