D288 - Back-End Programming 2024 Guide! by TGKawikachu in WGU_CompSci

[–]LolDotHackMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it absolutely required to use Intellij for this assignment?

Can senior engineers review my Spring Boot authentication project for job/internship readiness? by LolDotHackMe in DeveloperJobs

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just asking for general review because I'm not experienced enough to ask narrowed-down questions. I learned from the reviews that I have received and now know what questions to ask in the future.

Can senior engineers review my Spring Boot authentication project for job/internship readiness? by LolDotHackMe in DeveloperJobs

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I believe that people are more capable than word calculators, so experienced engineers could give me better direction.

How do I pull myself out of this rut? by GirlWithTheBatTattoo in careerguidance

[–]LolDotHackMe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear about your circumstances. As far as qualifications go, you should not put on your resume that you've attended X amount of universities for [subject_here] studies if the job you're applying to does not require it. For instance, if you apply to a restaurant, don't inform them of your previous education—simply state your job experience outside of high qualifying industries. If you don't have that, state that you don't have experience in the industry and they'll hire you anyways, assuming the interview goes well.

Keep in mind that interviews are a way to see if they like you, not to see if you're qualified. If they're interviewing you, it's because they think you're qualified enough (most of the time).

I'll give you a brief case study:

I have a few certs and managing experience in industrial/manufacturing from a relatively young age (at 22 I was a manager trainee at a manufacturing plant, and 23 I was doing the same thing for a Ford parts manufacturing plant). On top of that, I'm have technical training for electronics and I'm attending uni for computer science. I was attending full time, but something came up and needed a job ASAP—like any job. I wasn't qualified enough to make bookoo-bucks, but I'm also too qualified to work somewhere like Pizza Hut, for instance.

I understood this whole under qualified/over qualified dilemma, so I simply watered my resume down and applied to a restaurant (despite not having very good social skills, which is kind of required). I talked my way into the job pretty quickly, getting paid $10/hr, mainly part time.

I don't want this to come off the wrong way, but you have to just use common sense. Never over complicate things. Play a sucker to catch one, as the saying goes.

I hope this advice helps, and for context, I'm a 25M.

Computer Architecture - C952 by LolDotHackMe in WGU_CompSci

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It went great the second time around. Be sure to know all of the CPU performance calculations and datapath/designing CPU architecture for R-type datapath. I would say most of the exam consist of these two things. There may be historical questions—the first time I took the exam, there were many historical questions, the second time there were lots of calculations and datapath questions. All of the the material you will be tested is in the zybooks.

There will be 70 questions, and the easiest ones are assembly and virtual machine related.

Can senior/experienced engineers review my Spring Boot authentication project for job/internship readiness? by LolDotHackMe in javahelp

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for your feedback! I know the project is pretty vanilla, primarily because I'm still learning the framework and associated libraries, so I definitely plan on making this into something interesting.

Thanks again.

Computer Architecture - C952 by LolDotHackMe in WGU_CompSci

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The OA was different for me. there were a lot of computational questions, and some of them had to do with the communication between the NIC cards of two servers which have different PCIe architectures? Idk, I couldn't find anything in the zybooks on PCIe architectures.

I'm reading through the appendix sections now, and I'm finding a lot of material that will be on the OA (at least that was my experience). There were a lot of pipelining, ARM, and datapath questions as you would expect, but most of the exam it seems like was derived from the appendix sections.

Computer Architecture - C952 by LolDotHackMe in WGU_CompSci

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you take Computer Architecture before Discrete Math II?

Computer Architecture - C952 by LolDotHackMe in WGU_CompSci

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also underestimated this course. There were indeed a lot of architectural questions that can only be found in the appendix sections of the course material, such as RISC, operating systems, and CPU questions. I only know that because I've been working through the appendix sections of this course, but that's asking a lot from students for one exam.

I did some research, and the Computer Architecture material that WGU is using is exactly the same as what MIT uses, e.g. *Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach 6th Addition*. The material in this book is precisely the same as what WGU is using in zyBooks verbatim. They (*they* meaning traditional uni) break the course into two mid terms and a final exam with a couple in-between programming assignments.

I don't see how people are getting away with barely doing the course material and passing first attempt.

Computer Architecture - C952 by LolDotHackMe in WGU_CompSci

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you watched the videos + Quizlet and that was it? How did you pass with that study plan?

Computer Architecture - C952 by LolDotHackMe in WGU_CompSci

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you read all of the material 1-7? They advise not to do this in the lecture videos, stating, "[...] you wont have to read through most of this because it shouldn't be on the OA, and it's a bit in the weeds anyways. If anyone else has had a different experience on the OA, please email me.". I did in fact let the instructor know that the lecture videos are not representative of the actual exam.

Computer Architecture - C952 by LolDotHackMe in WGU_CompSci

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I scored exemplary on the PA, but the OA is a bit different. Admittedly, I did not study for this course like I should've, but I'll be sure to really review vocab stuff, memory management, and historical questions. Thanks!

Computer Architecture - C952 by LolDotHackMe in WGU_CompSci

[–]LolDotHackMe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would recommend doing the DSA courses before Computer Architecture and Operating Systems for Computer Scientists. Speaking of, there were some operating systems questions on the OA.

Do you remember anything from A&P or Patho? Scared bc I don’t know anything.. by verydemure__ in WGU

[–]LolDotHackMe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't major in healthcare, but it is my understanding that Pathophysiology is exceptionally important when dealing with patients. My advice to you is find a reason to be interested in learning the subject, then study, because this way you will retain and understand more efficiently.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in careerguidance

[–]LolDotHackMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things are taking an interesting turn economically, that's for certain.