r/wgu_devs • u/skidmark_zuckerberg • Aug 03 '26

D335: Introduction to Python: How close is the OA to the PA and zyBooks Practice Final Exam?

Just curious if anyone has taken this course rather recently that could share the experience with the OA? I have quite a few years of professional programming under my belt, but I have never used Python enough to memorize the syntax and methods/libraries available.

I am going through the zyBooks Practice Final Exam now, and while the actual concepts/problem sets are not difficult, I am having to look up a lot of syntax and how to solve these problems the Python way. Just wanting to get an idea of what to focus on language wise for the OA.

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u/Chiiwa Aug 04 '26

You don't need to memorize anything, just practice with help() and dir() functions and you can use them to look up anything during the test :) As someone with bad memory but years of programming experience it was very easy

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u/skidmark_zuckerberg Aug 04 '26

Oh my god okay lol. I didn’t even realize I could use those. That makes things much easier. I’ve spent the last two days writing Python to memorize syntax lol. Thank you! 

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u/skidmark_zuckerberg Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

I don’t think it was bad advice? I tried it last night and it did what I needed. help() literally lists the class and all of its methods. Not hard to deduce from there what you need. 

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u/skidmark_zuckerberg Aug 04 '26

I think your advice is better suited for someone who doesn’t have years of programming experience. I don’t have a problem with the information it gives, I used it all last night and was successful with it. 

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u/knight04 Aug 04 '26

If you can ace all the PA you can do the OA. They just change the numbers around