Professor
Jane Shevtsov
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Fall 2024 - This class was.. quite a rollercoaster. If you have taken calc (ex. I took AP Calc BC), the first half of this class will be a breeze. They spend like a month teaching you what a derivative is while avoiding the word "derivative", and then it all derails into some weird math (my friends and I nicknamed it "fake math"). Many parts of it are quite conceptual (like the word problems they give) and can be confusing at first. * to be fair to this class, I barely paid attention during lecture (partly because it was somewhat hard to understand), so my experience may be somewhat biased. I relied on prior calc knowledge and studied the lab worksheets and homework to get by. If you're a bio major, I would recommend taking the other math series (I think it's 31/32 or the 3 series) over this class. If you don't have a background in coding, the python labs aren't explained too well and you may need to spend extra time figuring it out. I've heard from others that these labs weren't even important and they never used what they learned in this class ever again.
Fall 2024 - This class was.. quite a rollercoaster. If you have taken calc (ex. I took AP Calc BC), the first half of this class will be a breeze. They spend like a month teaching you what a derivative is while avoiding the word "derivative", and then it all derails into some weird math (my friends and I nicknamed it "fake math"). Many parts of it are quite conceptual (like the word problems they give) and can be confusing at first. * to be fair to this class, I barely paid attention during lecture (partly because it was somewhat hard to understand), so my experience may be somewhat biased. I relied on prior calc knowledge and studied the lab worksheets and homework to get by. If you're a bio major, I would recommend taking the other math series (I think it's 31/32 or the 3 series) over this class. If you don't have a background in coding, the python labs aren't explained too well and you may need to spend extra time figuring it out. I've heard from others that these labs weren't even important and they never used what they learned in this class ever again.
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Winter 2025 - I took AP Calc which was the only reason I had any idea of what was going on. I knew all of the content and can honestly tell you there was no amount of studying that could have ever prepared you for the final (and all the billion of the students who took that final agree). This was more work than 30A mainly because of the labs. The labs are extremely ill structured and you're going to lose many points there. I got fairly good scores on it only because I went to TA office hours. This course felt so disorganized because one TA would tell me yes this code is right and the next would disagree (This is because of lack of instructions from professor). I urge you to take another professor because everyone talks over Shevtsov. The homework is just annoying. Please take someone else. A lot of Shevtsov's homework was coding, so you were learning nothing that would help you on the midterm or final. I knew this content very well and still ended up with this grade. It's not the hardest content in the world but you will be screwed over badly in the midterm or final.
Winter 2025 - I took AP Calc which was the only reason I had any idea of what was going on. I knew all of the content and can honestly tell you there was no amount of studying that could have ever prepared you for the final (and all the billion of the students who took that final agree). This was more work than 30A mainly because of the labs. The labs are extremely ill structured and you're going to lose many points there. I got fairly good scores on it only because I went to TA office hours. This course felt so disorganized because one TA would tell me yes this code is right and the next would disagree (This is because of lack of instructions from professor). I urge you to take another professor because everyone talks over Shevtsov. The homework is just annoying. Please take someone else. A lot of Shevtsov's homework was coding, so you were learning nothing that would help you on the midterm or final. I knew this content very well and still ended up with this grade. It's not the hardest content in the world but you will be screwed over badly in the midterm or final.
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