Most confusing class ever.
The quizzes are designed to make you fail.
Course design is weird and Prof. Orrico sometimes doesn’t know what she’s doing tbh.

Discrete is not the most interesting material, but Professor Orrico always made the class more interesting. She would often go off on strange tangents and randomly crack jokes, which made lectures pretty engaging. The in class quizzes never got too difficult, just doing some of the online practice, and understanding the complex examples was more than enough. The course was organized into 5 modules, with 2 paper quizzes and 2 online quizzes for each. The in class quizzes never got too difficult, just doing some of the online practice, and understanding the complex examples was more than enough. The online quizzes over the weekend are also open note, although the questions were tricky, you have a while to do them. You also get to do a retake quiz at the end of each module if you didn't like how you did on the quizzes which will replace your grade for the whole module. Although not a free A, if you pay attention in class and do a little practice before each quiz you should be fine.

Weekly quizzes compose the whole grades. You will be given opportunity to make up any screwed-up sections on the finals. If you are satisfied with your grades, no need to take the final exam. Great lecturer, caring about her students, great sense of humor. She spends almost 10% of the time talking to her students rather than lecturing during class.

I took this class as a requirement and though the concepts taught really aren't difficult, they can get confusing and paying attention to detail is important. Although I liked Prof. Orrico as a person, she often seemed like she didn't know what she was teaching and would backtrack often when she taught something wrong, which got confusing. I liked the layout of the course in that it's split into 5 different modules, and this made it easier when it came to take the final because we only had to take it on one module at a time and only if we wanted to replace our grade for that specific module. I wish I would have taken this course with Prof. Brunelle instead, but he records all his lectures so I just started watching his towards the end of the semester.