STAT 3240

I really enjoyed this class. I took this first semester of my first year and it was my first stat course (tested out of 2120). The stat department has a really bad reputation, but this class definitely did not reflect that. The grades are made up of entirely homework grades. Each week there's one homework assignment that you have to code in MATLAB. The grading is relatively simple, as long as you keep up with commenting your code. In the last month there's a project which is pretty doable if you kept up with the class.

Class was basically sitting down, the professor describing the problem with about 25% of the people actually paying attention, and about 30 minutes to 1 hour of just doing the homework and asking for help from the instructor TA.

That said, Fall 2015 was only the second time this course was offered, so they might add tests/quizzes later on. Still highly recommend this class, there was a lot of coding in MATLAB.

Such a good class. There is definitely a fair amount of work involved (weekly homework and a final project), but I would still recommend the class. You will get a good grade if you do the homework. Ed Hall and all of the TA's are available throughout the week to help with homework assignments. You will leave this class with an excellent grasp on Matlab (or Mathematica, if you so choose).

Don't take this class. You don't learn anything. Hall just read off the slides and makes you code in Matlab or Mathematica. Very high expectations when he doesn't demonstrate how to code in class and the problems are challenging. You can only succeed in this class by going to office hours and beg the TAs for answers. I am so ready to delete Matlab from my laptop after this semester ends. Don't make the mistake I did by taking this class.

This was an okay course. The professor didn't really instruct us in all honesty. I have no prior coding experience, so I was lost during his 'explanations' in class, which just consisted of him reading off powerpoints. I just went to literally all the office hours, and the TAs helped me until I got it my codes working. If you have time to do that, grading is pretty easy since it's 10 homeworks (lowest is dropped) and a final project that's basically a giant homework. It'll be a GPA booster because this course is kind of like all or nothing, but there was endless frustration here. If you need this course to look good on applications, take it. If you want to actually learn Matlab, look elsewhere.