Can we just discuss for a moment the huge amount of this class that comes down to luck? Not to mention there were some bugs in the code they gave us. Hopefully the college takes note of her work this semester. I'm extremely disappointed that a CA shared one misleading data point with you. lab_flow. The goal of that is to discourage cheating (which is rampant in 225 and difficult to control for a number of reasons), but there are plans to increase homework weight, especially as MPs are modified and new ones are added. ; Review session for Section P1 will be held Thursday, May 7, 3 - 4:30 pm in 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall (regular classroom). I look forward to seeing the results of the final. shrug. Anyone who took CS 421 this semester should know what I'm talking about. The coding portion of the final varied so much in terms of difficulty. Practice exams were universally seen as useful but stopped because "they were a lot of work". The class caused me an incredibly large amount of stress this semester. And I hate it. I and my friends have calmed down significantly since the original post. Global Studies (GLBL) 3 GLBL 492 UG Research Assistance credit: 0 to 3 Hours. Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Townies are all welcome. We tried to be very ambitious with CS 225 this semester -- this was my mistake, I won't try this again. Shocking Stickers. i look for the most useless things and study those, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Physics 225 does not schedule conflict exam sittings. I always wish they do bad on the finals because they deserve it. Due Apr 29, 23:59 PM. The conflict final, for students with a qualifying scheduling conflict, will be given, upon my approval, on Wednesday, December 20, 7:00pm-10:00pm in 103 Mumford Hall. I don't think more transparancy can hurt in this situation. This subreddit is not sponsored or endorsed by the University of Illinois or any other on-campus group. We've been extremely concerned about the expected value of your exam grade -- ensuring that every student, taking the set of all exams, would be expected to score the same as every other student. Given the lack of a regional subreddit, it also covers most things in the Champaign-Urbana area. General email: [email protected] The service, created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—was bought by Google in November 2006 for US$1. Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Townies are all welcome. I get that things might not be changed or might be looked at at the end of the semester. SOCW 200 Introduction to Social Work credit: 3 Hours. So if you didn't go and look at their code and find that mistake because you expected it to be correct you just got weird results without knowing why. Even on the final, for example, there were 2 coding problems. Introduction to the foundations of interdisciplinary social science research. UIUC imba is offering this fully-accredited online MBA program via the Coursera platform. This subreddit is not sponsored or endorsed by the University of Illinois or any other on-campus group. This subreddit is not sponsored or endorsed by the University of Illinois or any other on-campus group. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. However, their maxPriorityChild, which they didn't say anything about, was written for a maxHeap. The office hours and results for MP4 showed that we clearly hadn't been taught the content but it was all chalked up to whatever and never mentioned again. Or those who had to fix maxPriorityChild to get their minHeap to work, despite being told only heapifyUp and Down had to be implemented will get some respite from this. Mathematics 125 or 225 or 415 One of Statistics 100, Sociology 280, Psychology 235, Agricultural and Consumer Economics 261, Economics 202, Crop Sciences 241, Educational Psychology 280 Statistics 200 or Statistics 212 From experience, it's very easy to draw incorrect conclusions about score distributions from incomplete data. This subreddit is not sponsored or endorsed by the University of Illinois or any other on-campus group. GLBL 200 Foundations of Research credit: 3 Hours. And I'm so glad to finally be done with it. It’s really creepy. I see my best friends busting their asses and their grades on the final exam varying by 50% based on what version they got.