Alex Stojan

Hi all,
I passed the exam today with 88%. There were several questions that were a bit difficult (probably those that I missed), but the others were pretty easy. At one point I even thought to myself "... this exam will be peace of cake!". I finished the exam in about hour and a half, so I used the remaining time to check the questions that I marked.
I used two books: The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide by Heller and Roberts, and The Java Programming Language, 3rd ed. by Arnold, Gosling and Holmes.
I also went through one Marcus Green's exam (scored 83%), and I used extensively Dan Chisholm's topic exams (those were REALLY helpful, I strongly recommend them!). And last but not least, the JavaRanch, which undoubtedly helped clearing up certain points about the language.
Thank you all!
Alex

I tried to compile the code and it gave me a compiler error (cyclic "this" constructor calls ...)

Here it is:
http://www.danchisholm.net/apr18/topic/index.html

Hello,
Since the yield() method moves the currently running thread to the Ready state I don't think the thread releases the lock. My understanding is that the threads X and Y are taking turns simply because they are two threads running at the same time. Since the getI() method is synchronized after one thread completes it the other thread might get hold of the C object and enter the getI() method. I think the yield() method does not affect the order of Xs and Ys, and I think that any order is possible here.
Thanks,
Alex Stojan