A professional developer rarely writes code in a vacuum. You need to learn the tools of the trade used in industry.
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| Month | Focus | Daily Time | Output | |-------|-------|------------|--------| | 1 | Syntax, loops, arrays | 1–2 hrs | Number Guessing Game | | 2 | OOP (Classes, inheritance, polymorphism) | 2 hrs | Bank Account System | | 3 | Collections, exceptions, strings | 2 hrs | Student Grade Manager | | 4 | Lambdas, streams, file I/O | 2 hrs | Log File Analyzer | | 5 | SQL, JDBC, Git, Maven | 2–3 hrs | CLI Expense Tracker | | 6 | Spring Boot, REST APIs, JPA | 3–4 hrs | | | 7+ | Resume, LeetCode, applications | 2 hrs/day | Job offers | java from zero to first job
If you say "I know OOP" but can't explain why you'd choose an over an abstract class , you're lying to yourself. A professional developer rarely writes code in a vacuum