Coursework was relatively light for the class, tests were pretty easy too and she's a pretty lenient grader. If you show up to class (she had quizzes that were basically attendance, but she was talking about switching it up in the future) and put some effort into the online edX course (which was our homework) it's an easy A.

This class level of difficulty isn't the issue w the class. After online schooling began we had to watch around 2 hours of videos before a 1.5-hour class, the amount of work dramatically increased. she is very honest; however, she can get very irritated when people ask questions & skip steps while introducing new content because they are "implied".

Explained content very clearly in class. Effective use of examples to illustrate concepts. Was incredibly well organised for a new professor. Loved the problem-solving ethos Parikh inspired; her in-class activities, discussion and homework questions provided ample opportunities to develop problem-solving skills. An enjoyable and fulfilling course.

Dr. Parikh cares about you learning the material, and is really helpful when you go to office hours/ask questions. She can be intimidating at times though, and sometimes gets frustrated. The grading in the class itself is extremely lenient and the workload is low.

Dr. Parikh is a really good professsor if you make an effort! If you have questions do not hesitate to ask her during office hours she will explain it as many times and in different ways till you understand it. Work out all the practice problems from class and discussion because the test questions are really similar to those

She is a very nice professor and she is willing to answer all questions even if it takes up some of the lecture time. For tests, they are pretty easy and similar to homework and discussion problems. There is only one homework per week and some recorded videos to watch before each lecture so the class is not too difficult.

She is super nice, I don't know what some people are on about. I see that some people say she is boring, which is NOT true. The COURSE MATERIAL is boring, not the professor. It's not her fault that discrete math puts even the nerdiest kids to sleep. The material sucks, but its required. Great professor. Tests are fair. Directions clear. 9/10.

Parikh is a pretty good professor for discrete math! Content is sometimes confusing and dry but it's just bc it's discrete math. Doing pre-lecture readings / videos can take a bit of time, but tests are very fair with good review in discussions / practice tests. Course is well organized & they respond well to questions. Don't buy the book.

I actually enjoyed this class! I've actually been more interested in the theoretical side of computer science because of Dr. Parikh too. Dr. Parikh is incredibly nice and she really tries to engage with her students. Homeworks are difficult, but quizzes and exams are much easier. Overall, great class!

Parikh was a very good professor. She always tried her best to keep the lecture entertaining. But still, lectures can be quite boring and dry at some points. Homeworks are just a completion grade, weekly quizzes, and discussion sections as usual. Exams are quite doable and not hard at all, just be punctual. The final exam was a take-home exam.

Professor Parikh is a wonderful instructor! She explains everything very clearly and takes time to make sure we understand, even in the virtual setting. The homework is very fair, nothing outside of course content, and the exams are only slightly harder than the homework. Don't skip class though, you can quickly fall behind!

Dr. Parikh is an awesome lecturer. She has a clear agenda and itinerary decided for each day of the lecture and provides concrete examples about the material being covered in class. The homework and quizzes are fair and within the scope of the material learned. Tests are slightly more challenging than homework. She does rush to finish sometimes.

Dr. Parikh is a very good lecturer with a lacking curriculum. She does her very best to take questions and answer everything, but she seems disorganized at times, with many students asking for clarification on homework and her responding that actually the homework was wrong and she'll update it for next time. Teacher: 9/10, Class: 6/10.

Dr. Parikh cares about students and gives good lectures. The only thing is she does not tell us what style we need to follow in the exams sometimes. I feel it's important to make sure your answer styles in the exams are the same as the answer styles in the homework. Or you may lose style points in the exams. She did not post final grades on Canvas.

Took Programming for Correctness and Performance alongside OS this semester. Was doable since my other two classes were easy. Class is taught through an edX made by van de Geijn, and the TAs are good at explaining the concepts. Tests would have been harder closed-note. Utilizes basic linear algebra (doable), ask for help if you had bad linalg prof.

Dr. Parikh is a good lecturer, but sometimes she can get confused by her own notes. However, for the most part she is very helpful, especially her pre-lecture videos. Class is very easy to get an A in, just pay attention in class and do the homeworks.

Dr. Parikh is an awesome professor. Sometimes teaches in flipped classroom style, which is very convenient. Videos are concise and helpful. Homework solutions are posted ahead of time so you can check your work. I learned a lot from this class and it was very fun. Lectures can be slow if you have worked ahead because she gives people time to work.

Lectures are extremely important to understand the material, as are all of the practice problems Dr. Parikh provides. Although the material being covered is pretty dense and challenging, Dr. Parikh does a great job of making it manageable and understanding the kinds of problems she will have on her exams.

Dr. Parikh was very accomodating and a great lecturer. In 311 you have to watch pre videos before coming to class which really cements the knowledge in your head which she then expands on in class. Great professor and great class.

Dr. Parikh was a pretty caring teacher. That being said, the course is not very easy to grasp at times. Lots of the material is pretty dreadful to try and figure out, but Parikh will do her best to help you out if you go to her office hours.

Parikh is super knowledgeable about her subject, but her teaching comes off as heavy-handed, and she sort of dumps all the vocab and info all at once. Note-taking is important. Quizzes every week, but the TAs go over similar problems right before. Tests are 5-6 questions each, and they're similar to problems on past homework or in study sessions.

She will sometimes get confused by her own notes in lectures. Nevertheless, her lectures are mostly interesting and I think the tests are fair enough in terms of difficulty and time given.

She sometimes defers to asking students to come to her office hours to discuss questions rather than answering them in class, but for the most part she provides a lot of material to study for quizzes and exams, but both are pretty tricky

Once you pick up the pattern of questions from class and quizzes/tests, it gets very manageable. You learn a bunch of structured proofs. Professor was very sweet and down-to-earth. Lectures sometimes had ambiguity, but they were usually minor and the professor is actively open to questions.

ASK QUESTIONS. Lectures/videos are almost always confusing, especially after the first unit, but Dr. Parikh gives amazing answers if you just ask her a question. Tests are worth a lot and an A is 94+ but if you do all the work you will do good.

Although discrete math can be highly technical, the regularity of conventions and clear presentation of expectation makes most of the class revolve around understanding the logic puzzle rather than fighting for what the professor wants you to say. That said, falling behind on understanding technical concepts will make catching up nearly impossible.

Class covers a lot of material fast, especially in the graphs unit, so to gain a deeper understanding and for an easier time, definitely self-study some mathematical logic before hand. Learning To Reason by Nancy Rogers helped a lot. Learned lots of interesting things. NOTE: 5% participation earned by watching videos without skipping BEFORE class.

I struggled to understand Discrete, but that's more on me than the professor. Dr. Parikh explained concepts well, but flew through material due to the large amounts covered. Go through EVERYTHING when studying for exams, questions from help hours and homeworks are recycled. Also, no curve for difficult exams means she graded very leniently.

Had I known there were prerecorded lectures I would have used them much more than sitting in 1.5 hour ambiguous lectures. This is a mindset heavy class as it's full of things such as logical proofs. Professor is competent it's just the class itself is hard. Quizzes were much easier than exams and easy in general. Exams increased in difficulty.

Very friendly teacher, wants students to succeed at her class. Lectures weren't always easy to comprehend. Exams were challenging but graders are lenient and it isn't to hard to keep an A.

While this class can be tough, I feel that she does a good job at explaining things. It's really important in this class to ask questions and go to office hours for extra help/practice. On that note, there isn't a lot of practice for those who don't go to office hours or study sessions, so utilize those.

Dr. Parikh was a fantastic professor. She was very accessible during office hours, and she was very down to earth. She is the smartest teacher that I've ever had, and she knows a lot about the subject she's teaching. Even though I'm not a math person, she explained concepts in an understandable way.

The material in CS311 can be difficult to grasp but going to TA study sessions and Dr. Parikh's office hours are very helpful. Tests are difficult, but they are graded in a way that allows you to do well.

chill teacher and cares about students personal lives. just take opportunities such as costudy sessions and practice problems and review them for mastery before exams. Dr. Parikh is very down to earth and is ver accessible in office hours.

CS378 Programming for Performance and Correctness was a bit disorganized, but Parikh really cares about the material and teaching it to others. I think the class will be even better in the future now that the projects are set up and won't need to be delayed as Parikh finishes making them. Not a ton of work and easy to balance with other classes.

Dr. Parikh does a good job of teaching a very hard subject. Practice is hard to come by outside of the section and TA runs study sessions since proof formatting is so stringent. Keep up with the content and PRACTICE!

Lectures were about as interesting as you can make discrete math; with jokes here and there. Quizzes and exams were usually lightly graded (depending on who graded yours). Not extremely difficult to pass, but material is a bit confusing (have to do a lot of practice & lots of looking at the solution) but makes up with light grading. No bump/curve

Her lectures consisted of a lot of practice- which was good because exams reflected exactly what was on the homework, quizzes, and lecture practice. Her pre-class videos were incredibly useful, you should take notes on them before class and amend during class- this will make the class SO much easier for you (i wish i did this).

She is a very good lecturer but the topics after induction are really difficult. Make sure you take the time to properly learn the content on your own, and do practice. Exams were not bad at all, but the final was difficult and confusing. Weekly quizzes are also pretty easy if you pay attention in class.

I didn't think I'd end up with an A but I did. Just need to put in a lot of work and study the practice problems she gives diligently. She's a very caring and good lecturer. One of my favorite teachers from last semester. Overall, great class and great professor.

Dr. Parikh is approachable, funny, and knowledgable. She is animated at times, which some saw as mean or sassy but I found it light hearted and entertaining. There are weekly homeworks, weekly quizzes, and 3 exams. Homeworks were hard but graded for completion, quizzes were easy, especially with two attempts, and exams were forgiving and doable.

Pretty good professor, no major complaints. Lectures can feel long, but attendance isn't mandatory. The course material feels gimmicky at times, as you can completely fail an exam problem / quiz if you don't know some specific trick that the problem is designed around. Also a little tough grading on formatting. I still feel I learned a lot though.

I love Dr. Parikh. Notes are very helpful and she cares a lot about her students. like a lot. she is also really funny and really relatable too. parikh is the goat

Really good lecturer with engaging presentations, always ready to help even outside of class. Grading isn't too harsh & all the assignments/quizzes are basically completion grades. There are 3 major tests, all of them honestly aren't too bad but you don't get much practice material. Content is pretty interesting, math-wise it's just basic algebra.

Parikh's lectures favor direct instruction and are structured around notetaking, corresponding with my learning style. She delivers material well, but pre-class videos were a chore. HW solutions provided and weekly quizzes were easy. Exam grading is lenient but hard to prep for. Final exam score not revealed, but curve implied. Study induction.

Parikh is a good teacher and cares for her students but it may still be difficult to learn from her. Her lectures can be a little hard to follow and will require work outside class to learn the content. If someone is confused, her explanations don't really make sense to lessen the confusion and just repeats what she said before.

Dr. Parikh is a very good professor. Her course is very well laid out and her teaching style is great. The only thing that I felt was lacking was that there was not enough examples of certain topics so finding helpful resources was tricky. Other than that, you will have a good time with her, but I am also happy that it is over.

I don't think she understands that some of the topics in this class are very difficult to conceptualize, especially because proofs require some sort of creativity or ingenuity. She should give more practice because of this, but she always claims that she gives enough (I think most people would disagree).

Exam 2 feedback was handled poorly and made a lot of people dislike her, which has led to a lot of bad reviews this semester. Apart from that, she gives the HW solutions so that students have more examples of how to accurately answer questions, but if you just copy given answers it makes studying for exams a lot harder. Lectures were not bad.

This course is good in the sense that she is very approachable outside of class and she knows what shes teaching. The course material is dense and the projects are very time consuming and hard. Class gets better as the semster progresses but I would consider this a pretty heavy course.

Dr. Parikh is incredibly nice and friendly and covers her course content in a fairly organized manner. She did get off of her schedule after exam 1 which made her pre-lecture videos not align with her lectures. She allowed us to have cheat sheet(s) on the exams which was helpful. Like many other posts suggest, exam 2 feedback was handled poorly.

The class touches on a little of proving algorithms and really emphasizes how to optimize matrix multiplication. Beyond the 5-loops lab, the exam, projects, and homework are really not that difficult. Dr. Parikh is a bit of a procrastinator, so keep that in mind when expecting grades and feedback.

Dr. Parikh is a pretty good lecturer, but she didn't provide many accessible resources to practice the material. Aside from the required problem set, only one set of extra practice problems are available per week, and they may only be accessed through a TA or an organized help hour session (co-studies).

She was fine, but I had to work to earn my grade in class. She's a caring professor, but her lectures were kind of boring. The exams are slightly hard because there's very little practice material and she nitpicks your proof formats. However, you do get a cheat sheet for the exam. No textbook is required, but the Rosen textbook is a lifesaver.

Dr. Parikh is a great professor and explains concepts super well and will hold your hand while doing proofs in the class. Many people complain about the Exams, but you can bring cheat sheets so it makes them much easier, fill those up. DO THE WPPS!!! The questions are never harder than that. Only complaint is there was no practice exam material.

Dr. Parikh is a great professor. She makes her lectures engaging and makes discrete math as much fun as it can be (which isn't a ton). The quizzes are easy, but the WPPs are hard. The exam will probably be somewhere in the middle of the two, but a bit closer to the WPPs. For the exams, you get a cheat sheet and they give good partial credit.

Pretty good class overall, Parikh is a decent lecturer and the concepts are understandable. Homework sets are difficult but solutions are provided, weekly quizzes are much easier. The first exam is relatively simple, but the 2nd and final are much more difficult and there aren't many practice problems provided unless you go to co-study.

Make sure you watch the pre-lectures the whole semester. Since there isn't a lot of study material for tests, I would recommend the textbook, specifically the questions at the end of each chapter (one of the midterm questions was pretty much exactly repeated).

Class is hard but Parikh is a good professor. Lectures, and understanding of the homework are very important to success. Exams are unpredictable but you will be fine if you engage in lecture, and she does a good job of answering questions so make sure you ask.

Difficult class, especially if its your first proof class, but you will survive if you work hard. Lectures are boring but very helpful. Quizzes and hw every week, 3 exams but not weighted horribly. Worst part is lack of practice materials, but plenty of TA's and study sessions to help. Overall, difficult and boring but not a bad class.

The worst part of this class was the weekly quizzes worth 23% of your grade. I studied for these quizzes and had LOTS of points lost for tiny mistakes. I'm not sure what the averages were but me and my friends consistently got 70s despite doing great on exams and understanding and participating completely during section. inconsistent between TAs

This is kind of a weed-out class, so be prepared and be prepared for it to be confusing. Still, I think Dr.Parikh does a good job explaining, but make sure to be engaged, because while she doesn't mind "bad questions," if she thinks you're not engaged, she will call you out, also, don't be on your phone or AirPods; she'll call you out there, too.

Loved Dr. Parikh she was very nice and accessible. However, I thought the class focused way too much on format rather than mathematical correctness. I wish she would focus more on the math

Parikh is genuinely a sweet professor if you know her fr. She seems scary but she's actually chill. Long lectures, lots of material, make sure to lock in. Participation grade based on videos and attendance. Study A LOT every day and prep for dreadful weekly quizzes. TAs are goated they lowkenuinely carried my grade.

Weekly quizzes on material learned, watch the prelecture videos fully for participation grade. No practice exams for midterms but problem sets are good practice. Attendance taken at lecture.

She arrives to class late and posts test locations late. She answers too many students' questions. She jokes around, for which people hate her, but without the humor the material would be very boring. She offers many examples of proofs and conjectures in the practice sets with plenty of office hours. Practice set solutions are easy to understand.

Dr. Parikh is a great lecturer for CS311 -- take her! She is incredibly busy (hence a procrastinator), but she is kind. Ask her good questions in lecture -- save simpler ones for the TAs, who have the time. This course requires a lot of practice outside of class to succeed, so use office hours, co-study and the textbook. And start homework early!!