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WGU CS Free Study Resources

I'm putting together a list of free resources for WGU CS students, especially for those looking to study ahead before starting the program. Please let me know if you'd recommend any resources to add to the list.

Calc 1

• Official WGU: Zybooks with OpenStax textbook
• Official WGU: Link to Free Textbook Download
• Unofficial: Supplementary videos that show a visual/intuitive understanding of calculus from ThreeBlueOneBrown
• Unofficial: YouTube lectures from Professor Trefor Bazett

Discrete Math 1

• Unofficial: YouTube lectures from Professor Trefor Bazett

Data Structures and Algorithms

• Unofficial textbook: Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python

• Unofficial: Coursera Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick. An extremely thorough (but extremely difficult) Algorithms course from a highly renowned professor. This course is in Java and the WGU course is in Python, but I'm including it because this is the gold-standard algorithms course

Software 1-2 (Java)

Unofficial:

• Coursera Java Part 1
• Coursera Java Part 2
• Coursera Java Part 3
• Coursera Java Part 4

Computer Architecture

• Unofficial: Coursera: Princeton Computer Architecture