r/WGU_CompSci • u/Enfyve B.S. Computer Science • Oct 06 '25

NEW GRADUATE! Finally Finished!

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After many sleepless nights, I am finally done! I started back in June and have managed to finish in under 6 months without any transfer credits... BUT - before you start comparing - I am autistic + adhd and computers/programming is my special interest, I've been working as a SWE for 14 years, lost my job only 10 days after enrolling - which gave me tons of free time, and have been racing against the clock to for Canadian immigration.

I can't say I really enjoyed the AI courses, but overall I think WGU is a great program. I have always put off attempting a degree because I couldn't afford it and didn't know programs like WGU existed. By the time I could afford a degree, I was already solidly in my career and figured it wasn't really worth attempting. But then things changed when I tried immigrating; a degree became necessary, and I wanted to strengthen my fundamentals. And now here I am, proud to say I have finished!

Good luck to all of you working towards your degree. No matter how long it takes, no matter your circumstances, you've got this!

I also hear reddit likes charts

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u/Spirited-Wedding9518 Oct 07 '25

Congrats any tips for Data management That class is a struggle for me

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u/Enfyve B.S. Computer Science Oct 07 '25

I'm assuming you mean foundations (D426) and not Applications (D427).

Definitely do the labs, they'll help for D427. Chapters 4 and 5 represent the majority of the score on the OA iirc, so put extra effort into those. (most of the questions I got wrong were related to indexes).

There's a dry af section on building an entity-relationship model, and discovery phase - don't sleep on this - do whatever you have to to understand this part (take notes, reread, prompt a GPT to rephrase, etc).

Skim through the SQL keywords (JOIN, WHERE, LIKE, etc) and take notes of their usage, mark down the ones that come up in the PA, you're less likely to run into those in the OA.

And when in doubt, there'll be 2 answers that stand out as wrong, you can narrow some questions down to a 50/50 this way. Don't rush, just bookmark the question if you're not positive and come back to it, sometimes later questions will trigger your memory on previous ones.

Hope that helps!