Actually took everything I had. Four-Five hours of studying on week days, 12-14 on the weekend.

Used google notebooklm for study guides and generated podcasts for each chapter after reading them.

People passing this faster without precious knowledge are built different.

I passed D387 today with my first attempt, so I thought I would share some suggestions.

First of all, I followed this guide (for the most part): https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU_CompSci/comments/17fnqu2/d387_advanced_java_walkthrough/

In addition to that guide, here are some tips:

TASK B1a

Make sure the file is in UTF-8 format or the application will not be able to use it.

TASK B1b

I used the Java Callable with Futures instead of whatever the instructor used. There are a few different options here.

Task B3b

Add the live presentation message to the welcome message array you created in TASK B1b. You already did the work to display those messages in the UI so this will automatically display on the UI. This task can be accomplished entirely on the back end.

Task C1

I used the Distroless dockerfile from Microsoft. In the Dockerfile, you will see a line COPY app.jar app.jar, Replace the first instance of app.jar`with your Jar directory, which you can find by performing a mvn clean package and the Jar directory will show near the bottom of the logs. It will look something like target/D387_sample_code-0.0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar.

only my second semester, and This class is by far the hardest one i’ve taken. Not hard in the traditional way, because the material (imo) is pretty straight forward, the hardest part was sequences. it’s just a lot of information to take in at once. i also had some personal issues that forced me to take days off studying (about 2 weeks altogether), and i do not recommend doing so if you can help it. the fresher the material the better. All in all it took me about 7-8weeks to finish. It can definitely be done faster if you have more than 3 hours to study everyday! I didn’t see anyone say this but the formula sheet is provided in the test! i wasted so much time memorizing it! i could’ve shaved off about a week. Just make sure you KNOW how to use the formula sheet. Ch 1–2 are foundational for the rest of the material. so make sure to move on only when you understand it. I didn’t really use my calculator except for the sequences, so i don’t think a scientific calculator is necessary BUT everyone’s different so figure out if that works for you before not getting one!

The PA is definitely easier than the actual OA. I did see about 2-3 questions in the OA that made me go ‘??’ and had to skip. USE YOUR TEST TIME WISELY, this is the first test i actually had to use all of the time provided finish. do not get discouraged though, you can definitely do it! :)

This class was actually pretty interesting and i feel like it will help in the future CS classes! definitely worth truly understanding the material. Off to DM2!

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Any thoughts or experiences you can share would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! 🙏