How I passed WGU C779 Web Development Fundamentals

 

    This is considered an easy course for many students so my mentor assigned it as my first course. My mentor talked about this course on our first call and said that it should not take me too long since I have some experience with that. It turns out that I spend 7 days to study this course. It was a little bit slower than what I expected but I worked on another project (using WordPress) and that took some time.

    My background: Some self-taught WordPress experience and studied half of the Udemy course on web development.

    "A pass is a pass" is often said in WGU and that's the key to this course, too. This course is not asking you to make beautiful HTML and CSS pages. On the other hand, more than half of the course is not even about coding. 

    I took the pre-assessment on the first day with a score of 50%. I watched the Traversy's videos as many students recommend, and watch the first webinar of WGU. Tracersy's course covers most coding questions of the exam, and WGU's webinar contains materials like which law you should follow to serve people with disabilities, ethics in developing, etc. The flashcard in the study tips covers most terminology you may be asked. 

Traversy Media's HTML video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB1O30fR-EE

Traversy Media's CSS video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfoY53QXEnI&t=1s

   I passed the assessment around 80% on the first attempt. The pre-assessment is aligned with it. Don't overlook the terminology questions.

   Last, if you stuck on learning HTML or it is just totally new to you, the textbook is still a good choice especially the exercise questions. My mentor told me that the average passing time of this course is 8 weeks, so don't be panic if you think you are slowing down.