Professor Jane is the definition of a mediocre (leaning on the bad side) teacher. Her lecture slides felt disorganized at times, and she often found herself repeating herself over again to correct mistakes she made. She cannot write stuff down herself, so someone is writing everything down for her - creating a little disconnect. She wrote the textbook and goes rapidly into various subjects; she doesn't explain herself very well. Each week, they assign practice problems from the textbook, + you have to finish your lab from that week. The labs were horrible, I didn't learn anything from them, and my TA was not helpful with anything outside the coding.

However, her midterm was almost a carbon copy of the practice ones she gave. I wish I could say the same for the final. Despite all that, if you find a good group of people, study, and dedicate a reasonable amount of time to this course - you should be okay in the end! good luck

Don't take this class lol. The professor is hard to understand and will jump from concept to concept randomly.

Jane was the most unhelpful prof I've ever had. Her lectures are very chaotic and she is sometimes hard to understand. She's not very helpful or polite if you have questions, and she acts as you should just simply already know the material. Do not take this class if you don't have previous calc experience!!!! I took calc in highschool and this course rlly confused me. Overall a bad experience would not recommend Jane.

Jane was a funny and intelligent professor, however the lectures were often unhelpful. They usually consist of going through clicker practice problems that take a lot of time while less time is spent actually lecturing. I had to teach myself a lot of the concepts through the textbook and homework. Since Jane wrote the textbook, there's not a lot of guidance online for the problems we do either. The way the course is structured can be difficult to adjust to because it feels like you are learning different things in lecture, homework, and labs. I found it helpful to attend the problem-solving sessions outside of class as prep or the midterm and final, as the questions are taken from previous exams. The coding in labs could get very difficult and my TA was not very helpful. We had very little guidance on the coding instruction sheets so I had to collaborate with friends to figure out how to do each problem correctly. While Jane was not a bad professor, it might be worth taking the class with someone else.

Do not take shevtsov, this class was so hard, the amount of homework was insane. I techinically had to teach myself the topic. Most of the time i couldnt understand what the professor was saying and she never had good slides, everything was so vague

Jane is a good professor however, I think her classes are much better when they are confined to zoom and not in person. I spent the first five weeks online, and the second five in person and it made the world of a difference. I aced the content that was taught online but struggled a lot with the content that was taught in person. The in person lectures can often be incredibly slow, confusing, and chaotic. Jane has a speech impairment which makes it really difficult to understand her in a massive lecture hall. 90% of the time the mic was set too low to understand her regardless. She's also physically unable to write on the whiteboard, so an LA did it. Our LA often wrote wrong things on the board, or would write so incredibly slow that it was hard to focus on taking down notes from him and listen to Jane at the same time. The zoom environment was much less distracting, and her slides were so helpful.

Homework was extremely overbearing and annoying. The textbook didn't provide enough information to help you figure out how to solve it, so I often put down stuff that I made up. It was graded based on completion, so as long as you put in the effort, you should be fine.

Labs were also pretty hard. The first 2 weeks or so is spent on nailing down basic concepts of coding and then it progresses into harder LS 30A related coding. I frankly thought it was ridiculous that they thought a coding language could be taught that fast. Try your best on the labs and try to find a partner to do it with because those are graded on correctness. However, the Lab Practical in Week 10 is extremely easy, and is only tested on coding material up to about week 5. Its an easy 100 and also an easy way to boost your grade.

Her problem solving sessions are AMAZING. I would highly recommend attending them before the midterm and the final as she lays out everything clearly and you often don't have to study those concepts again because it'll become so clear. The midterm was extremely easy for me, but the final was super hard and confusing. Be sure to practice the practice tests that she gives out as the structure remains the same for most tests.

Overall, Jane is not a bad choice but if you can get it with someone better, I would go for them. I'm in a 30B class this quarter with another teacher and its a complete 180 (in a better way). Good luck!