Passed SCJD 149/155

[Robin Underwood]

Thanks everyone at JavaRanch for all your help! This really is a great site. And the SCJD was a great learning experience.
Score: 149
General Considerations(maximum = 58): 57
Documentation(maximum = 20): 18
GUI(maximum = 24): 23
Server(maximum = 53): 51

[Nate Johnson]

Great score! Hope to see ya sticking around the forum to help others

[Mike Piotrowski]

Robin,
Congratulations on the excellent score!!
Mike

[Valentin Crettaz]

Great job Robin

[Amit Kr Kumar]

Congratulations Robin
Amit

[Gosling Gong]

Congratulations, Robin!
Could you guess what made you lost 2 points in the dcoumentation?
[ July 29, 2002: Message edited by: Gosling Gong ]

[Robin Underwood]

Not sure why I lost points, but here's my best guesses:
Documentation (2 points): In-line code documentation was a little light. Javadoc sometimes only had one line comment for simple methods and didn't have @return, @param...etc.
GUI (1 point): Did not prevent multiple "search" button presses. No "Please Wait" type of message.
Server/General Considerations (2/1 points): Not sure, but maybe I wasn't concerned enough about performance.
I guess probably the biggest mistake I made was to set the essay test date to force myself to finish the project. I ending up having to rush and probably could have squeezed out a few more points if I put the assignment away for a couple weeks, and then reworked a few things. But then again, maybe I would never really feel like I was finished.
Let me know if you have more questions.

[Robin Underwood]

Maybe a bigger problem with the GUI was there was about two pages of code repeated for both the client and server that probably should have been factored out and shared.

[Gosling Gong]

Robin, did you use the default properties for each of your swing component?
Now I didn't set Look&Feel, and didn't set any font and color properties for swing components, I am not sure if it is OK?

[Robin Underwood]

I used the default Swing look and feel.

[vital kumar]

Congratulations!!!
on Your Sucess Robin...
I hope you stay back in this forum
to help all of us...

[Mark Spritzler]

Congrats Robin. Well done. Please stick around and help us out in the SJCD forum. You answers have always been very helpful to all of us.
Mark