There are a lot of people who dislike Dr. V, but she is truly an amazing teacher. She really cares about her students and provides materials for both studying and practice. The biweekly homework for this class was somewhat tedious, but was definitely doable for the time provided. She posts her annotated slides and lectures promptly, and the exams were well written and plenty of time was given to take them. I had her for LS30A as well, and though the structure was slightly different, I would recommend her to anyone.

So the deal with this class is that if you don't care about the material but want a good grade I highly recommend taking this class with Dr. V.
The live lectures have polls which is annoying, but I honestly joined them and would not really pay attention and do homework or watch tik tok and just do the polls because they were graded on participation.
The bi-weekly quizzes were sometimes kind of challenging but we had to attempts so getting a good grade was not too challenging.
We had bi-weekly homework due the day before the quizzes which were super easy and essentially a study guide for the quiz. The homework was also done with a group soo the individual work was pretty low, we split up the problems and then just reworded things before we submitted.
There were practice problems assigned but they weren't due and so I never did them.
Both the midterm and the final were taken with a group making them extremely easy to get a good grade in. The midterm was a bit more challenging and was pretty long but the final was painfully easy. One questions, worth 10 points, just required you to copy and paste come code into cocalc and then upload the graph.
Labs were kind of complicated but graders were super easy so it wasn't hard to get good grades.
OVERALL, I can't code for the life of me, barely learned the material, but because of the way this class was graded got a really good grade, so if this is just a requirement, highly recommend.

This class is honestly not hard, its actually extremely easy. The professor is not a very good lecturer, and did not respond to a single email all quarter, and was always behind with content, but it didn't matter because the final and midterm were so easy to get A's on, because they were group projects with your lab mates. Way easier than 30A, very light workload, I got an A+ and I never took any AP math class in high school. The coding was kind of difficult for me, but the TA's help you a lot if you are confused.

I was initially really nervous about having Dr.V this quarter, especially since I had Jukka last quarter, and even more so after reading so many harsh comments about her class. But honestly, if I could go back knowing what I know now I would have taken ls30a with Dr.V. This class is super laid back and was definitely the least stressful out of all my classes last quarter. Although her lectures might be difficult to understand at times, she more than makes up for it by being extremely accomodating and understanding. She is probably the nicest and sweetest professor I've had all year and I can tell that she genuinely cares about her students and their well-being. I highly recommend taking this class with her, it was stress-free and probably one of the easiest As I've gotten.

This is not the class to take if you want to actually learn anything -- I taught myself the materials using the textbook and lecture slides because Venugopal is unengaging and hard to listen to. It's an easy A, and she's a decent professor if you can stand to listen to her, but it's not enjoyable at all and I'd recommend trying a different professor instead.

Honestly, I felt like Dr. V wasn't a bad lecturer at all. There are polls during lecture, so you will have to attend to receive participation points. The workload was very light in my opinion. Many people stressed over the bi-weekly study guides, but it was only difficult if you made it difficult for yourself. For all of my study guides, all I did was take screenshots of the slides and upload them on my document for each objective and I still received full points for it. The midterm and finals weren't too bad because she allows you to work with your group members, which makes it was easier. I would definitely take her again! It was a class I slacked off on the most.