CHE 2216

How long the homework takes depends of how good you are at programming, but the tests and final are not programming based. The class is only difficult because a lot of material is covered and Shirts really makes an effort for his students to actually understand what is going on.

People seem to love or hate this class. Shirts is very enthusiastic and wants his students to learn well, and he's very receptive of student feedback. Overall I learned a lot in the class. The TA (Himanhsu) was excellent and in most cases did a better job explaining the problem sets than Shirts did.

If you put a LOT of time into this class, you're going to come out with a B. But by a lot of time, I mean around 10 hours per week, minimum. One project literally took my partner and me 24 hours (over the course of a week), and the assignment still wasn't done when we turned it in.
Pay attention to PDE's, because Ford expects you to understand that when you get to her class.

Expect to regularly put in 10 hours a week to complete homework sets, and more doing reading and reviewing lectures if you're shooting for an A. Shirts is a good professor with high expectations, although he can occasionally come off as slightly condescending.