Class was pretty easy. If you showed up to discussions and put in a bit of effort you should be able to get a 90+ in both labs and homeworks. The final project worth 30% wasn’t too bad as long as you put the effort in the prof gave out 100s with a bonus question (the presentation were pretty good to be fair). Prof was a pretty engaging lecturer just a bit ambiguous I’d say when it came to grading. There was a participation grade based on how much you talked in an online discussion platform called campuswire, but the grading was not really discussed and kind of hidden away in the syllabus. The class average for the participation was 0.2/5 for this section which is kind of crazy. I also think the amount of talking you’d have to do for a 5/5 is pretty unrealistic and even the most active people only got 2/5. This accounts for a quarter of your participation mark worth 5% of your grade. The exam wasn’t too bad to be honest it was just very condensed being about 50 minutes so I messed up pretty bad on one question and it dropped my exam mark by like 12%. All in all I’d recommend it.

Have to say this is a very weird class to some extent. Even though this is a class about R, the professor only talks about the actual programming 30% of the time. He focus mostly on stats 10 stuff, which you would know if you took AP stats before. The final exam (15%) is about it too, it's EASY. The lab, however, is a completely different thing. We learned about coding there and if you copied the TA's codes, you will basically get full marks in the lab(25%). Every week we got 1 homework and 1 lab, which takes at most 2 hours to accomplish. The homework are somewhat difficult but it wouldn't take you too much time, yet the TAs grade the homework harshly, so be sure to write the answers as clearly as possible. In the end of the quarter, we will get one big project, which weighs 30% of your grade. Have to say this is the easiest project I've ever done. My team and I only meet 3 times, each with 2 hours max, and we still finished the project. The median of this project is a 105% and the lowest mark is a 97%, so basically it's free credit as long as you don't mess up. At last, to get a full mark in participation(5%), just make sure you be active in campus wire. To sum it up, this class is a EASY A. TAKE IT!!!