Ananya Das

This was a very hard class. Required for the major. The subject itself isn't absurdly hard, what was hard was the lack of structure of the professor. It was simply hard to know what to even review for the test. Pr. Das does leave notes online where she walks through what was talked about in class, but you have to connect the dots on your own as to how to extrapolate the algorithms to new situations. Contrast this with Pr. Kimmel with whom I took Math Foundations, who tells you exactly what you have to learn and how it will be graded. Exams with Das felt like gambling.

This was a very hard class. Required for the major. The subject itself isn't absurdly hard, what was hard was the lack of structure of the professor. It was simply hard to know what to even review for the test. Pr. Das does leave notes online where she walks through what was talked about in class, but you have to connect the dots on …Read more

You have to take this for the major, and it is nothing more than that. The content was not particularly interesting and does not feel as relevant for the major as some of the other mandatory classes. While very kinda, Professor Das did not explain the concepts particularly well and often left me confused.

This class is notoriously hard with Professor Das, and I got the feeling that everyone in the class was having a hard time. The professor had us solve the biweekly problem sets in groups of 3 or 4, which was both helpful but annoying to coordinate. The exams are fair, though, with most problems being similar to the homework and practice problems.