For a supposedly simple class the professor made it very difficult. Lectures were not clear and have the class didn’t show up. He gave one more homework than on the syllabus plus the project was only a week long instead of the planned 3 weeks so instead of studying for finals everyone was trying to write the long lines of code needed for the vague project spec. Only good thing, nice grading.

I don't know how I feel about this class. The class itself covers very non-intuitive concepts, where learning about probability "feels" wrong because the equations sometimes don't make "intuitive sense" to our biased brain -- if that makes sense. Additionally, the professor's lectures felt very free flow, jumping from one topic to another and then back to a previous topic. I stopped going to lectures pretty early on. However, the TAs for this class are so helpful and make the class so much more manageable. The TA led midterm and final reviews were very similar to the actual exams. The final was LITERALLY BAR FOR BAR the review. The hw, data explorations, and quizzes were all manageable too. The class is also VERY GENEROUS in distributing grades, around 60% get an A- or above. Side note: the prof seems like a really genuine guy with good perspective, too bad he isn't a better lecturer.

So in short, class topics were hard but class was easy.

I didn't attend any of the lectures, so take this with a grain of salt. I went to almost every discussion though, which is where I learned most of the course content (or at least enough to attempt the homework and exams).

In my opinion, although classmates disagreed on this, the content gets much harder after the midterm. This might be because I didn't attend lectures. The first half of the course is very intuition-based, and if you have taken Math 61 before this, you will have an advantage, since much of it is combinatorics and formal logic. The second half of the course focuses more on formulas and calculus. Going to lecture or reading the textbook becomes a little bit more important here.

Tonmoy is an amazing TA, and I would highly recommend taking a class with him. He seemed to be the one running the class instead of the professor. If you have him, make sure to go to discussions and ESPECIALLY the exam review sessions, as homework is often based off of discussion problems and exams are very similar to the problems covered in review.

The homeworks are quite difficult, and you probably will need to work with others or go to office hours. While I personally never went, I'm told Tonmoy's office hours were very helpful. The midterm was pretty easy, while the final exam was quite difficult. You are allowed a cheat sheet and calculator. Definitely study for the exams.

The old reviews are pretty inaccurate to how he teaches now. Roychowdhury has definitely improved his teaching style, and made the class pretty enjoyable and easy. The midterms and finals were both only worth around 15% of your grade, and the material covered on the exams were pretty similar to the content covered during the midterm review. The median of the midterm was literally 99%. The homework was also fairly manageable. Excellent class overall

Very good class, clear lectures, exams are very easy (Midterm was doable in 30 min and final in a little more than an hour).

So this class was a ride. Professor never prepared notes beforehand which he did because he thought would help us understand his intuition behind how to solve a problem. In reality, he succeeded in deriving things, made mistakes, and proceeded to give us homework that would be on concepts that weren't covered in class because he didn't know what information he needed to cover in each lecture. Also, the course requires a Matlab project, which should have been assigned week 7 and due week 10. Instead, he assigned it week 9 and made it due finals week and two-thirds of the project was on concepts that were not covered at all or barely touched on. Then when we asked questions, he said that many of our questions were on fundamental stuff, and he seemed to not understand that the reason for those questions was because he never taught us the fundamentals to begin with. Also, in a probability and STATISTICS course, he only taught us one kind of distribution (Gaussian) and said we'd learn the rest in a stats course? I mean, I thought this was the probability and stats course, but now I'm not too sure. Anyways, I'm glad I'm done.

I like that this class feels easy. But paying $100 per hour to have this guy recount basic multiplication is a waste of my money.

Very good professor, but any class sucks when it's 8am. People told me he's really easy, but I found his tests to be decently challenging (average around 60s). He goes incredibly slow before the midterm, and the material can easily lose you after. Watch out for the second half.

Wow, what a trip with Roychowdhury. He is an interesting professor that loves to go off into random tangents about other things in the world. Even with that though, I felt that it was pretty difficult to pay attention to him during the 8am lecture. He gets pretty lazy and we skipped a few sections that we're supposed to learn, so I hope that doesn't haunt me later on. It also took him until week 10 to post our midterm grades, which was during week 6. Ridiculous. I haven't gotten the grade in the class so I don't know how forgiving his curve is, but considering most of the class did pretty bad on the HW and fairly well on the midterm, I can only guess that it will be sort of forgiving (he just doesn't seem to care that much).