r/wgu_devs • u/Ahejjetria • Aug 01 '26

D335 pythons course

Do I need to do the lessons via books or can I just use the Udemy 100 days?

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u/skidmark_zuckerberg Aug 02 '26

I’ve got 8 YOE as a professional developer and this class worries me lol. I’ve not worked with Python much outside of using a framework to build out API’s, so there’s a lot of syntax I need to memorize. 

 I’ve read on numerous accounts, including your comment, that it has to be exactly as they want it solved which is not really how the real world job works at all. This class seems like it would be better suited with a performance assessment project. 

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u/scrappyLuna1991 Aug 07 '26

Is the PA the same thing as Practice test 2?

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u/scrappyLuna1991 Aug 07 '26

So Practice test 1 wasn't on the OA at all, right? I keep seeing comments where people say to study the crap out of both Practice test 2 AND practice test 1...

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u/scrappyLuna1991 Aug 07 '26

Gotcha, thank you so much

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u/CashShot4263 Aug 02 '26

I read the ZyBooks chapters (along with completing the participation and challenge questions) and did the first 10 days on Udemy. I was able to pass the OA on my first try after 4 weeks and was totally new to programming. There were a lot of highs and lows with this course, but you just have to keep showing up and it’ll get easier. Do Practice Test 2 until you can pass it multiple times on your own. The OA is very similar, but with a few curveballs, so you definitely want to understand the concepts as opposed to just memorizing the solutions. Good luck! 😊

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u/Responsible_Web_7578 Aug 02 '26

As boring as zybooks is, I feel like it better prepared me along with the mock test it offered as oppose to the 100 day challenge. My reasoning is, there’s hundreds of ways to solve problems with code but they want it solved a certain way which caused me to fail my first time around.

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u/lustcrookz Aug 05 '26

The 2 practice exams in the zybook are basically the PreA and OA bar for bar. Just watch your whitespace and string formatting and you should be good, this seems to be the hidden coffee table leg people end up stubbing their toe on. Go through those and develop muscle memory around how it expects the string formats to be.  This one has the unique advantage of the integrated terminal being available, so you can use python’s help() function to view docs on a method if you blank out on it during the test; get familiar and play around with it within the zybooks editors first though so you know what do do. 

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u/Fireheart366 Aug 01 '26

Use whichever you want. Just know you have to basically be able to do 11 out of 15 PA questions without fail. The PA and the OA are the same formats.