SYS 2202

This class was poorly ran and just overall very disorganized. It’s not a super difficult class, but this semester the class time was truly a complete waste almost. The final project rubric was not given to us in a timely manner and it wasn’t exactly clear how the grading worked for the final project which was 30% of the grade.

Wouldn't recommend taking it with Prof. Doryab. She is nice enough and reasonably knowledgeable about the course content, but the structure this semester was pretty frustrating. A lot of the expectations about assignments weren't clearly communicated, lecture wasn't really helpful (did most of the learning through Hadley Wickham's R4DS book), and the class structure kept changing through the middle of the semester. I personally didn't get too much value out of the assignments this semester, but overall I did end up learning a fair bit about how to program in R, I guess. The project was long and took a lot of time (and similarly the rubric for it didn't exist until like a week after it began.) However, maybe some of these things will be smoothed out in later iterations - I think this is only her second time teaching the course, and it was over Zoom, as well. Basically, the course just felt very disorganized. That was the main difficulty, the actual content of the course isn't too hard to grasp.