Genuinely not meant for first year students and should not be a requirement for those majoring in biology. There should be an easier, more introductory course for those in STEM who do not wish to pursue a career in computer/technological sciences.

Useful up until R Programming. Found it entirely unnecessary. Excel was decent, although I had to teach myself.

Avoid Onoise Gerald Kio at all costs. He is geniunely one of the worst (if not the absolute worst) professor teaching at York and it baffles me that he is still employed. Would stand there, read slides and not EXPLAIN topics, class would blink and then there would be a demo on the board. He would randomly go silent and do things on excel/R without teaching us. He also slipped up that he was more familiar with MatLab, and that he was unfamiliar with R Programming which is something you should not say to a room of 100+ students that are supposed to learn the program from you. Hope he gets fired. Could not tell you one thing I learned from him. There are no pros from Kio.

Go for Andy Mirzaian instead. Only reason why I'm barely passing is due to his recorded lectures.