BME 121Digital Computation

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• Starts off easy and gets much harder after midterms, if you actually do the assignments without AI it's not as bad. The tutorials were very helpful for completing assignments. The exam was rough, but the teaching team and prof are very generous with marking

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• Depending on prior knowledge this course can go multiple ways. If you've never programmed before ever, you will struggle to keep up. Content definitely gets more complex as semester goes on so make sure to not fall behind. To succeed in this class you have to do the weekly labs, they help a lot in staying on top of the content. Everyone got fried on midterm and final to the point they were curving like crazy for the class average to remain suitable to what they wanted. Do not underestimate this course, in my opinion hardest of 1A.

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• The weekly labs were usually okay but sometimes they were like impossible to do. The cs checks are fine but the midterm was okay. The lectures are just him reading off the slides usually. The content gets pretty heavy after midterms though and there is just so much content.

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• This course can be excruciating but is probably the single most useful subject you take in 1A. Will set you up so nicely with a solid foundation of beginner C++ knowledge that Data Structures and Algorithms will be a breeze. That being said content in the second half of the semester is a massive pain and staying motivated can be insanely difficult. Is genuinely interesting to learn about though, especially if you have no prior programming knowledge or experience. TAs can typically make or break the class - mine were a GODSEND I would be shamelessly emailing them at 4 in the morning for help with an assignment just for them to reply 5 minutes later. Assignments and in-class programming…

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• the content increased exponentially in difficulty from the beginning of the course. the pre- and post-midterm assignments were starkly different. this may not be an issue with the course itself and rather the professor, but it did not feel like an introductory course for a cohort of students who mostly had no prior coding experience.
  we were provided 2 midterm practices without answer keys and for the final, we had no sample finals or any outline of what kinds of questions would be asked.

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