deeds is the absolute best 30a teacher!!! i unfortunately had to retake 30a as i received a D fall quarter and previously had bennoun which was a nightmare of its own, but deeds' energy and urge to help any and everyone really made this class honestly enjoyable. workload is extremely manageable, midterm allows for corrections up to 1/2 points, homework is graded on completeness. take this class with deeds!!

I had Deeds in Winter 2025 for LS30A and loved him. I was really afraid I wouldn't do well because I generally suck at math, but the content felt decently easy to follow as long as I did my own review and the workload was more than reasonable. I did take calculus in HS (got a 4 on the AB calc exam), so maybe that made this course easier for me as well, but I also know someone that didn't even take calc in HS and got an A, so I think that it is more than manageable to do well in his class regardless of previous calc experience. Overall would definitely take again.

Professor Deeds is a fantastic person and a great professor. His lectures were engaging and easy to follow. There is iClicker for participation. You have learning teams, but sitting with them/working with them in lecture is not necessarily required. If you pay attention and engage, you will do well in this class. Office hours are extremely helpful. All the TAs are well trained and well versed in the topic. If I ever see a another course I need in the future taught by Professor Deeds, I would 100% take it with him.

don’t be swayed by the high reviews. this guy does not give extensions and does not care about the learning curve. he will literally give you an assignment and even the SMALLEST error he will not care and will give you a 0. not even partial credit, just a straight up 0. he is not very good at emphasizing things and expects you to just remember everything. DONT TAKE HIM.

I highly recommend this class to all Computational Biology major. Not only is it easy, but I genuinely learned information beyond what is covered in a textbook. The class is designed by Prof Deeds and Hoffman based on their experience and research in the field. The class consists of weekly homework assignments (9 total with the lowest one dropped) worth 75% of the grade, attendance worth 10% of the grade, and a final project (2-3 page paper + 4 figures) worth 15% of the grade. The grading is VERY easy; even if you don't pay attention in class, the homework takes around 1-2 hours (3 hours max) with little to no coding. The TAs in the class are also very helpful with debugging and the final project. We were also allowed to work in groups for the final project, but everyone had to submit their individual paper. As the grade distribution indicates, this class is a VERY easy A. Overall, I'd highly recommend this class.

I LOVE THIS MAN!! He was so amazing. Understanding, funny, so so engaging, he's passionate about teaching and he seriously really wants you to learn the material and he makes sure it happens. I hate math so much but I made it through his class and actually grew to enjoy some of the math!! His TA staff is also amazing, so competent, and they help him write his exams, so he really does what he can to curate it to the current level of the class. He provides so many practice and preparation opportunities for the midterm and final too! If you have the chance to take with this man you should 1000% do it I love him and miss him all the time

I HIGHLY recommend taking LS30A with Professor Deeds. Never had taken a calculus class in high school, this class was surprisingly pretty manageable and Professor Deeds explained the concepts thoroughly during lecture. He held review sessions before the midterm and final, which were extremely helpful and I actually learned quite a lot in his class. Your lowest grades for each of the assignment groups are dropped, so its fairly easy to get a good grade at the end of the quarter if you try your best.

The perfect professor exists!! Deeds has genuinely been the most incredible professor to walk this planet. He's hilarious, helpful, and makes the material relevant and understandable. For his class specifically he really sticks to the format of his own tests. So really make sure you know how to do his tests and you should be set for the exams. This is PEAK professor material. Take Deeds for LS30A if you want to thrive in the LS3O series!!!

I highly recommend taking this class. It teaches fascinating ways of modeling real-life systems with mathematics and I really enjoyed learning about this. I would say that if you are familiar with basic calculus, this course should not be difficult for you at all. The professor is awesome at answering questions and his lectures are clear.

I have a mixed feeling toward this class. I like the simplicity of this course, meaning that I didn’t pay attention in almost every lectures and self-studied few days before exams and ended up fine, but at the same times I did not enjoy the amount of work we had to do for something this simple. I did not like the labs we had do, they were really confusing and sometimes even the LA did not know what they were asking for. I am just happy lab was not on our exams. Professor Deeds is definitely really helpful and supportive of his students’ learning. He always offer extra office hours or study sessions before exams or for people who were struggling. He is also really funny and caring with his students. I like the professor but not so much the contents. It is an easy GE for sure, especially for individual who likes STEM.