Here is the catch, I've just graduated after some efforts and my first thought was to keep myself in the academia, but some troubles postponed that idea and I will have to wait some time and do some rethinking.
For the past 2 yrs I have been dealing with lots of Fortran and C++, all in a scientific environment, while not touching any single line of
Java. Now I'm planning on getting back to a full time daily job and want to show possible employers something more tangible than some incomprehensible numerical methods implementations.
To cut the cheese, how much time do you think it would take me to get in shape to do the
SCJP exam? I can get daily sessions of something like 3hs of studying everyday, but I'm at lost of how much time it will take to read through Berts & Sierra book and actually LEARN anything. After 4 yrs in college I realized that cramming just doesn't works.
Thanks for your attention!
Fabio