APMA 3080

Overall, this class was fine. I wouldn't say Abremenko is a bad prof, but there was something about her teaching style in recorded lectures I didn't quite like. Yet, she gets the points across and teaches what she needs to teach. There were weekly homework and group work that were mostly fine, except sometimes the graders were nitpicky on minute things. Overall, Abremenko was pretty pleasant to have and taught what needed to be taught. #tCF2020

Prof. Abramenko is a great APMA educator. She answers any questions you may have well and teaches effectively. I think all math professors are under-appreciated at UVA. I appreciated her availability and willingness to help students understand the material. The course is well structured and by the end, you feel like you've learned a lot. The exams were fair and the homework and classwork were excellent ways to learn. The WebWork questions were sometimes tricky and the time you spent on them made it feel like a waste when it's only worth 5% of the grade. Recorded lectures helped when you were stuck. I personally never read the textbook after the first chapters, I found the lectures and in-class material enough, but I also wasn't the best student.

This class follows a familiar format to previous APMA classes you must take before 3080, which is reassuring. The hardest part of this course is that all of the content is intertwined. If you have any doubts about the first few units, clear them ASAP because they will come back to haunt you at the middle and end of the course. I found this class much easier than Calc 2 and 3, but I took those online. Review the homework worksheets and classwork worksheets before the exams because the questions are usually similar. If you understand the homework and classwork worksheets, you'll be fine for the exams.

The class grade is spread across classwork, homework, midterms, and the final, so you're set up for success if you put in the effort. #tCFfall2021

Professor Abramenko was a great professor! I loved the class and really learned a lot. It did require doing work outside of class, but I thought it was a fair workload. Unlike most math classes, I did have to read the textbook before class usually, but skimming it was usually enough. The Matlab labs and projects were a lot of work, but I think they are changing that aspect of the class. I always got full credit for the Matlab components, it just took a lot of time and trial and error.

Abramenko is a lovely professor who is passionate about the material and honestly has really good notes/lecture ability. The issue in this class is that the material is pretty dry (not too difficult though). I would not hesitate to take this class again with Abramenko.

Professor Abramenko is a great professor and teaches the material very well! The worksheets are kind of tedious since there is one assigned pretty much every class period but there is always a 1-day grace period and the lowest 1 or 2 worksheets are dropped if you attend at least ~85% of lectures. The projects are horrible solely because they are in MATLAB, a terrible programming language that's never actually taught during class but you're just expected to kind of pick it up (but only to the extent of completing the projects MATLAB is not testable material).

Overall, the concepts taught in this class are very cool and have tons of applications in computer science such as image compression and least squares regression. Every concept builds on top of the last, so make sure you get help immediately if you don't understand something. Exams can be tough but an A is certainly doable.