Introduction to Discrete Structures

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 31A, 31B. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 180 or 184. Discrete structures commonly used in computer science and mathematics, including sets and relations, permutations and combinations, graphs and trees, induction. P/NP or letter grading.

Review Summary

Clarity
6.7 / 10
Organization
8.3 / 10
Time
5-10 hrs/week
Overall
8.3 / 10

Reviews

    Quarter Taken: Fall 2022 In-Person
    Grade: B+

    Midterm questions were verbatim from homework which was nice. Rocky start but Vicaria listened really close to feedback and adapted quickly! So lectures got much better as the quarter progressed. Slides were always posted online if you missed class and homework was manageable

    Quarter Taken: Winter 2023 In-Person
    Grade: A-

    Very cool teacher, the class was super engaged and she was very friendly. Tests were not very difficult.

    Quarter Taken: Winter 2023 In-Person
    Grade: A

    Good lecturer, fair exams. Very understanding professor.

    Quarter Taken: Winter 2023 In-Person
    Grade: A

    Vicaria angel is a pretty good lecturer. She definitely knows what she's talking about but can be a little over the top and precise on detail at times. Her slides definitely have good content but can be quite long/stretched out for a rather simple concept.

    Quarter Taken: Winter 2023 In-Person
    Grade: A

    Definitely a bit of a questionable start to the quarter, but in hindsight, a lot of the problems are straight from the homework/lecture and everything added together is pretty reasonable. The class is just rather difficult because of the nature of the content.

    Quarter Taken: Winter 2023 In-Person
    Grade: A

    Very dismissive of the class and very passive aggressive.
    Material wasn't crazy difficult, she was just ridiculously inconsistent. The hardest part was trying to fit your answers to her grading:
    Sometimes she would have questions on her exams that would be practically exactly the same as her homeworks, and if you wrote the answer she gave on the answer key you would still lose points because the answer key is apparently a "guide" not an answer...

Course

Instructor
Vicaria Angel, M.
Previously taught
24W 23W 22F

Grading Information

  • No group projects

  • Attendance not required

  • 2 midterms

  • Finals week final

  • 33% recommend the textbook

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