r/WGU_CompSci

Basically the title.
For C867, in the beginning of the PA it mentions you have to commit and push after each step of the project.

I'm pretty new to C++ so unfortunately I got too absorbed in making the project itself that I overlooked that very important step... the only thing I've really got in my branch history is the final commit right after I've done everything.

I'm sure I massively screwed up considering that was supposed to log my steps for everything, and I somehow only noticed that VERY crucial detail right when I was supposed to submit it.

I've already emailed my instructor, but I'm not hopeful that kind of thing could just be glossed over.

I kind of just have to start over, don't I? Lesson learned. I feel stupid.

I've seen conflicting information on this. When doing the combined cs degree, do you start the master's courses immediately after finishing the bachelor's or do you have to wait for a new term to do so?

On cp 11 now, there are hundreds of terms to memorize and they all are similar in naming structure. Tons of concepts. Seriously, how does anyone get through this? Each chapter takes hours to go through and I don't remember the last one I page I did, let alone the last chapter.

Sorry, just a rant. Seems insurmountable.

The diploma came in the mail yesterday, so I guess it is about as official as it is going to get.

I have about 25 years of experience in the tech world, at a FAANG company most recently, and various large hardware vendors before that . I was a CS major for 4 years back in the late 90s, and finally finished the bachelors as a transfer student at SNHU last year (had to retake pretty much all core CS courses). Overall, I think the curriculum was good. It covered most of what my day job has entailed over the last 10 years. Generally, the types of things you should have a good grasp of to be successful in the field. I think it was about the right mix of writing papers, with projects that were relevant. The projects were enough to demonstrate the concepts that were important, without being too complex that they took more time than they should have.

I had taken a few grad level CS courses as an undergrad, and I would say these were very similar in scope. Those had a lecture once a week for about 3 hours. I don't think you give up much doing it all online. I would guess I wrote about 350 pages in total.

It took me about a week shy of 6 months, so I did finish in one term. I think this was only practical because I wasn't working at the time - with a full time gig to balance, it would have been at least a year, maybe longer. I had been taking a break from the corporate world and studying something completely unrelated to technology, but had a lot of free time. I did take some fairly long breaks along the way as well. Unless you have an extensive background in the field, I would not go in with the expectation that you will finish in one term. I generally worked on 2 or 3 courses at once, focusing on 1. I would do research or reading on the others if I started feeling burned out, which started happening around course 4 or 5. I completed the courses roughly in the suggested order, but I don't think my advisor had a problem moving them around if I wanted.

Has it helped with my career? Hard to say, but I took a new job as I was wrapping up. A friend had done the GT OMSCS at about the same time, it covered essentially the same things, with more busy work, took longer, cost more, and he hasn't found a job yet. For what it is worth, no one in the corporate world has even asked where I got the degree from.

Hope this helps someone!

Taking the degree in hops to help get a job in a low level programming field. I know realistically I'm going to have to do a lot of c++ self study. Does the degree help with learning the theory to help with learning low level stuff? Like does it go over compilers? I know it goes over os. But just curious how much it goes over stuff like that.

Having a hard time remembering the hex digit equivalent to the 4 digit binary.

Will that info be given on the test???

Update* actually I just figured out how to calculate the 4 digit binary without having to memorize each one

I’m struggling and curious about other’s experiences.

Hello everybody, I just passed computer architecture today on my first OA. People aren’t lying when they say this course is packed full of information. Going through the Zybooks was a little overwhelming for me after a few chapters, and studying the flashcards were awful as usually, as I absolutely hate flashcards haha. With that being said here’s what worked for me..

I found this post below on the WGU engineering discord after searching c952.

https://discord.com/channels/1063853854413836499/1072688595976069160/1495901064615166145

This post was writing by “Oremor” and it was a very detailed outline of how they passed the class in about 6 weeks of study time.

What I did first was utilized ChatGPT to study all the PA questions, and have it test me a ton on concepts until they stuck. Then once I felt comfortable with those concepts, I referenced all three study guides Oremor linked in the post, and input them in ChatGPT. From those I had chat create another outline on topics we hadn’t covered in detail and hit on those until I felt I was getting a good understanding of how things worked. Also studying all the 10 recommended concepts Oremor discussed at the top of his post helped me tremendously. The whole study plan was basically days of chat and myself going back and forth until I understood things in detail. There were still concepts on the OA I hadn’t touched but felt like I knew enough of the material to reason through them. If this post is confusing, or the link isn’t working, feel free to reach out. Thanks Oremor!! And good luck everyone!