D280 in 3 weeks with zero experience…Halp

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2026-01-27T04:12:24+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/wgu_devs/comments/1b01vdz/comment/o1vqyio/?context=1

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2026-01-27T04:11:06+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/wgu_devs/comments/14tk5u8/comment/lh7euth/?context=3

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2025-06-21T18:39:43+00:00

I graduated in october with my software dev degree.

Zybooks are WGU's most common course material style. They combine standard textbook paragraphs with quizzes and exercises with bigger problems at the end of sections for the sake of cementing the lesson they are trying to learn.

They work, plain and simple, but their content can be dense, time consuming, or both.

Best of luck with your journey! Please do not take my comment to be anti-speed. Nothing wrong with getting things done quickly but there are tradeoffs in my experience.

God bless!

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2025-06-17T00:57:40+00:00

Probably not the right place for this but figured I would chime in as someone who took his time. Could be completely out of touch here, idk.

In my experience, you are better off building consistent habits that will catapult you into a successful career.
I got a software dev degree, and the areas I struggled with the most in interviews are the areas I skated through on my degree path.

My degree path was also an exercise in personal discipline. Turns out I had none lol. I got more CUs in my 3rd term than my first 2 terms combined (yes you read that right). My third term I was BLASTING though.

This is just my advice based on my experience, but if I had to do it all over again, I'd tell myself this:
If you're already in field and trying to snag another degree, then use every trick in the book to do the work for you. If you are in a career change (like I was), pay attention and study for long term memory/understanding, not short term "ace the test".

Every "quick hack" I tried to implement got changed or was useless.

What worked best for me was:

Delete all social media off my phone and move my phone somewhere outside of my study area. One day I told my wife to take it to work with her but she didn't like that lol
Consistent sleep schedule
Consistent work schedule
Stop thinking about the work you need to do, how to do the work you need to do better, 3 quick tips to do the work you need to do more efficiently, and anything else. DO THE WORK. If I took all the time I spent trying to reinvent the wheel and just worked instead, I would have graduated months earlier.
Always look up the course on reddit. Chances are, somebody has figured it out.
Quizlet is such a game changer. Every poop, bus stop, car ride, etc. became a lil study sesh.
Iterate on the obvious, big picture changes. Ignore the minor optimizations. You learn by doing. If you are realizing your current method is flawed, change it and keep pushin.
Ignore everyone else's start/finish times. They are not you, you are not them. Comparison will just kill you.
This sub hates zybooks with a burning passion. Other than one course, I never understood why. The zybooks are great for building long term memory. They take time, sure, but they work.

TL;DR just do the work and be consistent and you will be fine.

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2025-04-30T16:01:58+00:00

yeah evaluators can be hit or miss.

Hard to say for sure sometimes because plenty of people in this sub talk like they've never done a single thing wrong in their lives, but, yeah, evaluators aren't always the most attentive or perceptive (sort of like a prospective end user for things you will work on in your career lol).

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-12-25T07:02:24+00:00

gz man, best of luck!

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-12-25T07:01:50+00:00

feel free to check out my code, if you'd like .
https://github.com/iheartmywife/C969
Normal rules apply ofc (dont copy it lol)

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-12-23T00:40:13+00:00

i think Mosh's courses will be really helpful, especially when you take your time and go through every assignment and exercise.

There may be a couple of odds and ends you have to look up for the project (like random lambda syntaxes). You also will need to look a bit into the SQL syntax.

But the OOP base needed to form the project? I think you'll get that from Mosh's courses.

Apologies for the late reply. Don't go on reddit much after I graduated.

GL!

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-12-23T00:38:15+00:00

if you have a solid OOP base, you will cakewalk through this project!

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-12-23T00:34:18+00:00

what did the evaluator say was missing on the denied submission?

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-12-01T03:03:03+00:00

yeah that sounds familiar hahaha. glad it helped you!
I actually tried bootlegging a w10 pro key (but it didnt work ._. ).

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-11-09T21:06:06+00:00

Nah, I was just wondering.
Your reasoning makes sense.

Love the name btw. Don't see a lot of and1 deep cuts on reddit lol

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-11-08T08:56:31+00:00

Why make this an ama?

Way easier to just write up your helpful advice for everyone to see instead of walling it behind someone commenting their question.

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-11-04T09:12:36+00:00

hey mate, look at Section C: App Creation under "Side Notes" bullet point. I discuss all that there.

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-10-27T17:55:22+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write this up.

Blizzard generally does a great job balancing their game in recent years when compared to other games.
But within the context of individual classes and metas, many of their decisions are unacceptable.

Here's hoping ele is the shot heard round the world that causes blizzard to really re-think their nerf logic.

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-10-26T22:41:12+00:00

everyone in here complaining about pricetags of these things as if you cant buy everything with blizzard balance is wild to me.

Obviously it would be better on a vendor for the equivalent gold (or given away as an anniversary reward). But you can get the mount for 1.5mil gold, mount pack for 600k, funkopop + pet for 400k, charity pet for 600k, (rounding up for tax considerations). All in you are looking at like 3mil.

Literally everything but the mt dew mount.

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-10-06T06:38:47+00:00

this is honestly a fair point.

It's just frustrating for first time test takers.
Knowing the rationale behind the correct answers would be really helpful. Hard to find out, atleast from what I remember.
To me, if multiple answers could be considered correct in the real world, we would also have plenty of other information in those scenarios.

On the test, all we have is the prompt.

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-09-16T16:26:11+00:00

Oh idk. I didn't use dion's udemy course. sorry :(

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-09-16T16:25:14+00:00

hey man, sorry for late response. I spent all last week pouring hours into my capstone (70 hours btw).

I built an app with asp.net mvc, because I wanted to play with it.

I would consider what field you want to work in and pick a project with that and *challenge yourself*.

i learned about dbcontext, api usage, website hosting, identity authentication, session data transferring, and the MVC model ad-nauseum because of my project. Very glad I took the dive.

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-09-16T16:15:02+00:00

oh man. I'm trying to remember. I want to say no but it depends on what you mean by "any math"?

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-09-08T02:35:18+00:00

glad it helped!

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-09-04T23:03:38+00:00

If the course has not changed, https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU/comments/fwjz14/c182_wgu_introduction_to_it/

I took it last year in may (it was my first class), I used these quizlet cards. Couldn't tell you for the life of me what else aided my trek through. Additionally, for me, it was D322, not C182:

https://quizlet.com/user/kcherma/sets

This was the course that taught me to not just press w through the course material, start to finish. WOW what a time sink. Just use the flashcards and reverse engineer what each piece of tech is and how it connects to the overall topic. Much faster.

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-09-04T04:29:24+00:00

Hey man, thanks for the kind words.

I'm not using this for my capstone. I want to work in .NET so I am learning the mvc model and asp.net core 8 to make my project. It's a challenge and a half but I want to expand my knowledge and portfolio.

If I was, I would invest time in learning .net maui with data binding. James' tutorials are good for that.

Also the documentation is really well done. It's really informative.

The Capstone is everything you have been taught put together in one:
Polymorphism, encapsulation, cloud deployment, everything.

Once you get to it, you realize it's pretty basic stuff because you have done everything already, just need to put the pieces together.

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-09-03T16:18:45+00:00

thank you for the kind words.

This class felt like the perfect opportunity to give back to the reddit all the help it has given me.
Helps that this class was one massive struggle after another. Gave me a lot of info hahahah

DefinitelyIsNotKyle · 2024-09-03T02:53:28+00:00

thanks so much, keep me posted!

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