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Is it possible for beginer to complete assignment and essay in 6 months

 
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Hi all,

I am wondering if 6 months is enough time to complete both an assignment and exam? I understend that some people with experience can do it in 3- 5 weeks, but what about people without real experience and fool time jobs

I am quite new to the Java development and passed my OCJP in November 2011. All the aspects of assignment: database, Synchronization/locking, RMI, GUI are new to me.
I already got Monkhouse book and read Roberto Perillo paper.
I know I can do it. But 6months to study, develop, submit, and write essay …might be pushing.

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Hello Margarita Babkova,

Well, I can give you my own example. I have a full time job, before OCMJD, I almost never did any GUI coding, for OCPJP (SCJP in my case), I only studied standard synchronization mechanism like wait, notify etc. (not the classes/api from concurrency package - which I used for OCMJD assignment). By the way, I guess you'll be working with a single data file, so you don't have to worry about 'database' (i.e. JDBC etc.)

I only read the paper by Roberto, put my questions on this forum (and got nice help - especially by Roberto and Roel), and read Monkhouse book. It took me around 2 months to complete everything (assignment submission and essay exam). And yes, I got a descent score (385/400)

Once you follow SDLC properly, the assignment is not really that difficult. One of the most complicated part is - concurrency. No matter what, your application should never enter in the deadlock (in case of deadlock, failure is guaranteed).

I personally believe that 6 months is more than sufficient amount of time for this certification. Of course, if you need any help, you can always get back to this forum.

I hope this helps.

All the best.

On a lighter note, I believe you have a full time job (not a fool time job)
 
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And welcome to CodeRanch!
 
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Thank you. It is sounds reassuring.

I guess, I still have an occasional issue with a correct word.
 
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You are welcome.
 
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I did mine also in 5 months in combination with a full-time job, a bit of a social life and contributing to this great forum. I had very little experience with multi-threading, gui and rmi. Also tried to do everything as good as I could do (questioning every line of code, wrote lots of tests,...) and I was amazed I got perfect score. So you should definitely be able to do the job. Good luck!
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