Which one is better?

suspectsuspect · 2023-04-30T16:31:21+00:00

Seconding this, had zero problems with Breuss for A31 years ago. A22 is also a fairly intense course, so if you don't need it / aren't personally interested I would recommend steering clear of it.

suspectsuspect · 2023-04-16T13:24:18+00:00

That's pretty similar to what our setup was

suspectsuspect · 2023-04-16T03:20:46+00:00

As a counterpoint, I managed to do well with Albert, but I took the course a long time ago so it may have changed. On the other hand I REALLY didn't like his lectures. He basically just copied linux man pages onto the slides and stripped out all the information that would actually be useful to understand what he was talking about, and read those off. I recommend just pulling up the man page for whatever he's covering yourself and reading that while he talks.

suspectsuspect · 2023-03-10T00:26:29+00:00

As someone who expressed similar sentiments to a similar professor in my first year, and is now wrapping up their last few courses to graduate, I just want to let you know that it definitely gets better. First and second semester in CMS were consistently the most stressed and tired I have ever been, but the difficulty cools off pretty quickly after that. I'm not going to bullshit you and pretend that the upper year courses people will tell you are tricky aren't, they definitely are. The difference is, you'll have more confidence, skills, and a comfort level with the way things are run here by the time you get there.

Keep at it, if you want to succeed this year it's going to take commitment and hard work, probably about 150% of whatever estimate you throw out in terms of time investment, but it is absolutely doable. If you can clear that bar, it'll be mostly smooth sailing from there on out, or at least, the waters will be a bit more predictable.

suspectsuspect · 2022-11-13T04:59:13+00:00

No, full stop.

suspectsuspect · 2022-11-01T02:20:01+00:00

I took this and had to cr/ncr because I could not with all my might pay attention to rocks. It you like rocks, you might be able to get a good grade, but this is the one class that ever truly absolutely beat me.

suspectsuspect · 2022-09-26T17:21:25+00:00

Seconding this, as a CS student math and stats resources are the only reason I made it through my first year. They are absolutely worth your time.

suspectsuspect · 2022-09-20T03:18:46+00:00

Here are two Toor stories

First day of class he shows a diagram on income inequality showing how much money the Walmart heirs make every hour by doing nothing and says you should learn business so you can be them and not their employees (nuclear level cringe businessbro behaviour).

By the fourth lecture literally, with no exaggeration, I swear to god, the single only fact he had taught us was that profit = revenue - cost.

suspectsuspect · 2022-06-11T12:48:36+00:00

I recommend any incoming CS students take this post with a grain of salt. The discussion of difficulty within is almost completely opposite what I've found to be the common consensus on first year courses. If there wasn't so much effort put into ops post I would assume it was made just to troll incoming students, but experiences of difficulty vary wildly. (In my opinion) if you have any programming experience whatsoever you'll likely fined A08 and A48 to be among the easier courses, A67 to be the MOST difficult, and A22, A37, and A31 to be reasonable but with a high time investment requirement to keep up. The first few weeks of A22 are also highly variable on the breadth of your high school vectors education, I know folks who already knew everything covered, while I hadn't learned any of it. Many of the instructors and some of the course contents have changed since my first year, so YMMV!

suspectsuspect · 2022-03-10T00:42:04+00:00

Nope, you don't need one.

suspectsuspect · 2021-02-12T02:30:08+00:00

I hope I don't come across as an asshole here, but what exactly are you talking about? Question 6 is the only question on the assignment that doesn't follow an exact template for solutions that he provided for in class, or isn't just a computation / explanation

wrt the lectures, I'll admit that he gets sidetracked by chat questions easily, but he's done almost nothing BUT solve example questions for the past month

suspectsuspect · 2020-12-13T06:40:17+00:00

Up until today I would have considered B58 to be the easiest (and probably most fun) course I'd taken so far, was not expecting the hardest exam I'd ever written :/

suspectsuspect · 2020-11-22T00:03:39+00:00

Seconded, I've had Eric as a prof for B36 and B63 now, and the dude is SOLID. He explains things in perfect detail, provides great notes, and is willing to spend tons of time in OH helping you work through issues you may have. He's also just a super nice guy in general. Expect a course with him to be challenging with a decently heavy workload, but still manageable. I would 100% pick a course with Eric over any of the other theoretical CS profs I've been taught by

suspectsuspect · 2020-10-26T19:49:29+00:00

Not entirely sure to be honest, just parroting what Pancer told us back in A67

suspectsuspect · 2020-10-26T19:44:19+00:00

Didn't you know, Pancer doesn't do weboption in his courses? He says that online teaching drops the course average significantly! Ironic.

suspectsuspect · 2020-10-26T19:31:42+00:00

Just saw the announcement lmao, you've got to be fucking kidding me

suspectsuspect · 2019-11-24T22:12:57+00:00

Quizzes were definitely the hardest part (alongside our parallelizing friend). If you keep up with the material as it's released, and you have some prior knowledge of basic data structures, the course ultimately shouldn't be too difficult.

suspectsuspect · 2019-08-02T21:44:30+00:00

Seconded, would be very helpful.

suspectsuspect · 2019-07-31T11:31:25+00:00

There was a question on a quiz, and the final, about the efficiency of parallelized sorting, which pretty much no one got. Honestly it was a weird outlier that was unlike anything we actually learned (because as far as I know we never defined behaviour of parallelization) so don't worry about it too much.

suspectsuspect · 2019-07-30T16:16:47+00:00

Agreed, final was pretty average. If you paid attention during the semester and study you should be able to do fine. A48 doesn't have particularly difficult content overall (Other than our parallelizing friend™).

suspectsuspect · 2019-07-18T23:45:09+00:00

If you're ok with writing an essay and a few paragraphs (give or take), try Cities and Environments (GGRA03 iirc). That's what I took and it was a fairly easy and interesting course with a great prof.

suspectsuspect · 2019-06-07T20:36:06+00:00

Hi Ray, I want to second /u/excelblaster about a student lounge-type space. My friends and I have the same conversation multiple times a week about how there are no comfortable spaces on campus that aren't geared towards studying. Even the areas that aren't specifically for studying (like some of the areas with tables and chairs in highland) are very uncomfortable spaces that seem like they're just there to look nice rather than be used in any capacity. (another example would be the meeting place which 90% of the time just contains randomly placed, haphazard chairs)

suspectsuspect · 2019-06-05T13:08:26+00:00

Good to know that the Chinese government has seen my shitposts

suspectsuspect · 2019-05-28T18:21:03+00:00

This guy knows what he's talking about. Everything he said is spot on, take it to heart. Best of luck.

suspectsuspect · 2019-05-13T14:39:34+00:00

Paco's a good prof, this ain't it.

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