Cinda is great! She made the course fun and interesting. Can’t go wrong taking any of her courses

Stay on top of assignments

Cindy is great. There are many assesments in the middle of the term so it will keep you up with the materials. Resources on this course are very readily available.

The professor does a great job of teaching

This course rocks

Important class for all cpsc students. Not too hard to grasp the topics, and the grading is distributed over weekly quizzes, very fair. Though saying that, it is a lot of work and I mostly started doing poorly on weeks where I had a lot of homeworks due in other classes. Also, GRAPHS

Cinda was awesome. She motivated me to work extra hard by being considerate, helpful, and fair. Course content is not easy, but she makes it easy to understand. I really enjoyed her collab videos with Will.

I hate this class with a passion because I think its so poorly organized and the homework assignments are unimaginably unintuitive and mentally exhausting to do. ONE of the online lectures is labelled with the content it covers, wrong assignments have been given out at least TWICE, and one of the weekly lectures was made online so now I have to commute 3 HOURS and only attend one other lecture I have on that day. This doesn't even include how awful the homework assignments are. The way they are formatted is done so poorly I often cannot understand what it wants me to do, and most questions build off one another so you just end up stuck until you have an epiphany and can even begin to answer the first part of the question. No other class can compare to how much this one has made me want to ...read more

Course content consists of learning about how languages (mainly C++) implement different data structures and how we can analyze algorithms to determine if they're good or not

The professor is great, very enthusiastic about lecture content and eager to help students.

I wish I knew how to handle my emotions better so I wouldn't be seething for hours trying to understand whatever the homework is intended on helping me learn.

Best prof in the world

This is a required cpsc course but very useful into getting into data structures and algorithms. It was very quiz heavy but they are not hard at all and give a lot of practice questions. As long as you start on the assignments early, you should be fine and get a decent grade. Average for our section was around 86.

Cinda was amazing and super entertaining in class. Try and take her when you can.

Try and learn a bit of C++ before going into the class but the first few labs help you get into it and they have a C/C++ refresher videos that should help.